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IN RE PANAMA TRANSP. CO.

98 F.Supp. 114 (1951)

In re PANAMA TRANSP. CO. THE J. H. SENIOR. Petition of UNITED STATES. THE J. PINCKNEY HENDERSON.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 29, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thacher, Proffitt, Prizer, Crawley & Wood, New York City, for claimants.

Chauncey I. Clark, Haight, Deming, Gardner, Poor & Havens, Macklin, Speer, Hanan & McKernan, James F. Bohan, Nash, Ten Eyck, Maximov & Freehill, Elizabeth Robinson, Mendes & Mount, Alexander T. Wells, Max Lustig, Benjamin B. Sterling, Edgar H. A. Chapman, Lyeth & Voorhees, Raymond Greene, Simone N. Gazan, Austrian & Lance, Lord, Day & Lord, Jacob Rassner, Homer Loomis, James N. Senecal, Fink & Frank, Atkins & Weymar, Hunt, Hill & Betts, J. Lester Parsons, Jr., Michelsen & Elliott, Duer, Strong & Whitehead, William S. O'Connor, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, Pyne, Lynch & Smith, Monica & Feury, Abraham Harris, Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston and Mahar & Mason, all of New York City, for various claimants.

Joseph M. Brush, Richard M. Cantor, J. Emerson Gough, all of New York City, for Senior Henderson Proctors Committee.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

The Court has before it exceptions to the report of the "Senior-Henderson Proctors Committee" (hereafter the Committee) in the limitation proceedings herein. These proceedings arose out of the collision between the tanker J. H. Senior and the liberty ship J. Pinckney Henderson on August 18, 1943 as a result of which 98 crew members lost their lives and 5 suffered personal injuries. In March 1950 a settlement of the claims was agreed...

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