UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY

Nos. A.131-151, A.153-203.

81 F.Supp. 183 (1948)

UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY v. UNITED STATES. THE YMS-12. THE JOHN WORTHINGTON.

United States District Court S. D. New York, Admiralty Division.

December 3, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of N. Y., of New York City (Edward L. Smith, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Louis E. Greco, Sp. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating (Edwin S. Murphy and Raymond T. Greene, all of New York City, of counsel), for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.


RYAN, District Judge.

These suits in the admiralty arise from a collision on the morning of December 16, 1942, between the United States Navy Ship YMS-12 and the steam tanker John Worthington, at sea in a buoyed channel in the approaches to the New York harbor.

The YMS-12 alone sustained collision damage.

The S.S. John Worthington, at the time of the collision, was being operated under the terms of a charterparty to the Government.

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