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ACCINANTO, LTD. v. COSMOPOLITAN SHIPPING CO.

Nos. 3028, 3035, 3037, 3053, 3058 and 3060.

100 F.Supp. 826 (1951)

ACCINANTO, Ltd., et al. v. COSMOPOLITAN SHIPPING CO., Inc. et al.

United States District Court Maryland, Admiralty Division.

October 31, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lord, Whip & Coughlan, George W. P. Whip, Baltimore, Md., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, Henry N. Longley and James H. Simonson, New York City, for libellants.

Ober Grimes & Stinson, Wm. A. Grimes, Baltimore, Md., Haight, Deming, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, Wharton Poor and Tallman Bissell, New York City, for respondents.

CHESNUT, District Judge.

These cases presented libels in personam against Mowinckels Rederi, sub-time charterer of the Ocean Liberty. The ship was partially loaded in Baltimore in June 1946 with ammonium nitrate fertilizer which, by spontaneous combustion, caused a fire to and subsequent explosion and entire destruction and sinking of the ship in the Harbor of Brest, France. The libels were filed by the shippers, owners or consignees of other cargo on the ship. On...

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