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THE HAVANA

45 F.Supp. 244 (1942)

THE HAVANA. Petition ATLANTIC GULF & WEST INDIES S. S. LINES et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

March 20, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, of New York City (Chauncey I. Clark and Norman M. Barron, both of New York City, of counsel), for petitioners.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (D. Roger Englar, T. Catesby Jones, and W. J. Nunnally, Jr., all of New York City, of counsel), for claimants.

COXE, District Judge.

This is a limitation proceeding growing out of the stranding of the S/S Havana on Matanilla Shoals in the Bahamas in the early morning of January 6, 1935. The vessel was at the time on a voyage from New York to Havana, with fifty-one passengers and a general cargo. After the stranding, the passengers were removed to another ship which responded to a distress call, and, in the transfer, one of the passengers lost his life when a lifeboat overturned...

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