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IN RE SOUTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S PETITION

No. 1733.

135 F.Supp. 358 (1955)

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

United States District Court D. Delaware.

September 22, 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, for exoneration from or limitation of liability.

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

RODNEY, District Judge.

The present questions grow out of proceedings in Admiralty. The steamship Southern Districts on December 2, 1954 left Freeport, Louisiana, bound for Bucksport, Maine, where she was due to arrive on December 10. The vessel never arrived and after elaborate search and investigation, no traces have been found. Subsequently, limitation of liability proceedings were filed by the owner under 46 U.S.C.A. § 185 et seq., and questions arising from...

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