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COMPLAINT OF COSMOPOLITAN SHIP. CO., S. A.

No. 77 Civ. 1425.

453 F.Supp. 265 (1978)

Complaint of COSMOPOLITAN SHIPPING COMPANY, S. A., as owner of the 26,650 GROSS TON OIL TANKER CLAUDE CONWAY for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability in a Cause of Limitation, Civil and Maritime.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

February 28, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dué Dodson & deGravelles, Baton Rouge, La. by Richard J. Dodson, Baton Rouge, La., of counsel, Harvey F. Gerber, New York City, for Matascone claimants.

Eaton, Van Winkle, Greenspoon & Grutman, New York City by Norman Roy Grutman and Gary A. Woodfield, New York City, of counsel, for the Public Administrator.

OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

Facts

On March 20, 1977, the S.S. Claude Conway sank off the coast of the United States, and one Franco Matascone, an Italian citizen, died along with numerous other crewmen. The owners of the ship, Cosmopolitan Shipping Company, instituted this limitation proceeding. See 46 U.S.C. § 185. The mother and father of the deceased together with his brothers and sisters ("Matascone claimants...

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