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AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY v. GOULANDRIS

173 F.Supp. 140 (1959)

AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, Libelants, v. Basil GOULANDRIS, Nicholas Goulandris, and Leonidas Goulandris, doing business as "Goulandris Brothers" and General Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. of Greece, Respondents. BANK OF GREECE, Lekas & Drivas, Inc., Pompeian Olive Oil Corporation, and Victor Cory Company, Libelants, v. Basil GOULANDRIS, Nicholas Goulandris, and Leonidas Goulandris, doing business as "Goulandris Brothers" and General Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. of Greece, Respondents. Basil GOULANDRIS et al., Cross-Libelants, v. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, Cross-Respondents. Basil GOULANDRIS et al., Cross-Libelants, v. BANK OF GREECE, Lekas & Drivas, Inc., Pompeian Olive Oil Corporation, and Victor Cory Company, Cross-Respondents.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

April 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for libelants and cross-respondents, John W. R. Zisgen, Owen C. Torrey, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, for respondent, General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., of Greece, L. de Grove Potter, Michael F. Whalen, Alfred J. Skidmore, New York City, of counsel.

Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City, for respondents and cross-libelants, Goulandris, James E. Freehill, Herbert D. Schedler, Francis P. Kelly, New York City, of counsel.

RYAN, District Judge.

These suits in Admiralty were filed as early as May, 1941; they come before us consolidated for trial in March, 1958. This opinion has been written after reviewing over 20,000 pages of depositions, "condensed" by the proctors into an agreed digest of more than 2,000 pages; truly, the machinery of the law grinds slowly in our human attempts to accomplish justice.

The suits arise out of admitted and undisputed damage to cargo which was...

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