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PETITION OF SOUTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

No. 1733.

132 F.Supp. 316 (1955)

Matter of the Petition of SOUTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY and Philadelphia and Norfolk Steamship Company for exoneration from or limitation of liability.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

June 8, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Morford and Ernest S. Wilson (of Morford & Bennethum), Wilmington, Del.; and Thomas E. Byrne, Jr. (of Krusen, Evans & Shaw), Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioners.

Herbert L. Cobin, Wilmington, Del., and Henry E. Howell, Jr. (of Jett, Sykes & Howell), Norfolk, Va., for respondents.

RODNEY, District Judge.

This matter arises upon a motion to dismiss a petition for limitation of liability filed by a shipowner by virtue of 46 U.S.C.A. § 185. The facts were as follows. On December 2, 1954, the steamship Southern Districts left Freeport, Louisiana, bound for Bucksport, Maine, where she was due to arrive on December 10. Not hearing from the vessel by December 8th, intensive efforts were made by the...

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