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OBERFEST v. CARGO SHIPS AND TANKERS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 6123.

272 F.Supp. 567 (1967)

Samuel OBERFEST, Plaintiff, v. CARGO SHIPS AND TANKERS, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

September 6, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Tucker, Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff.

Virgil S. Gore, Jr., Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

The primary issue in this case is whether a complaint, seeking the recovery by an assignee of brokerage commissions under a contract providing for the conversion of certain vessels and further providing for the payment of brokerage commissions, is cognizable in admiralty. Under a clause of foreign attachment, one of the defendant's vessels was arrested, a claim was filed by the master, and presumably a bond or letter...

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