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UNITED STATES v. THE AUDREY II

No. 27141.

185 F.Supp. 777 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Libelant, v. THE Liberty Ship AUDREY II et al., Respondents, and Universal Oil Carriers, Inc., Claimant, Northwest Marine Iron Works et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

July 15, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Keith R. Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., Graydon S. Staring, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

Lillick, Geary, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening libelant Bethlehem Steel Co.

Dorr, Cooper & Hays, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening libelant Northwest Marine Iron Works.

Hall, Henry & Oliver, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening libelants Pacific Gamble Robinson Co., D. H. Girdwood, Grays Harbor-Willapa Harbor Pilots Ass'n, and North Pacific Shipping Co., Ltd.

Sefton & Gartland, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening libelants Rudolph Blais, Paul R. Ritchie, Francis Falls, and Burrell G. Smith.

Graham, James & Rolph, San Francisco, Cal., for intervenor T. J. Stevenson & Co., Inc.

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

The matter before the court consists of exceptions taken by the libelant United States of America to the final report of a Special Commissioner in Admiralty. The facts of the case, none of them disputed, are these:

In 1951, the Liberty Ship Audrey II, then the property of the United States, was sold, through the Maritime Administration, to Universal Oil Carriers, Inc., a New York corporation. The purchase price was $544,506...

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