AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. v. UNITED STATES

No. 27980.

208 F.Supp. 573 (1961)

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., a corporation, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

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

March 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter N. Teige, George D. Wick, San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

Cecil F. Poole, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.


GOODMAN, District Judge.

Libelant, the owner of the vessel SS PRESIDENT ARTHUR seeks to recover $27,742.33 from the United States for the loss of her anchor and the loss of and damage to portions of her anchor chains while she was operating under time charter to the Military Sea Transportation Service of the Department of the Navy. Libelant claims that the United States is liable because the loss and damage was the natural and foreseeable result of a breach by the...

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