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UNITED STATES v. LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO.

Civ. A. No. 67-1692.

295 F.Supp. 53 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO., Inc., in personam, and the SS THOMPSON LYKES, her engines, tackle, etc., in rem, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

October 18, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Ruddell, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Thomas L. Jones, Admiralty and Shipping Section United States Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

M. D. Yager, Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

CASSIBRY, District Judge:

Plaintiff United States of America seeks to recover, under the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of this Court, damages from the defendants Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., and its vessel, the SS Thompson Lykes, for delivery of three shipments of bagged wheat flour and corn meal at the port of Kunsan, Korea in October 1966 in shortlanded, wet and otherwise damaged condition. Plaintiff alleged that it delivered the three shipments in good...

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