Legal Opinion
The Edmund Fanning
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 13, 1950PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUGARMAN, District Judge.
On March 13, 1947, the S. S. Edmund Fanning was destroyed by fire at Genoa, Italy. The United States of America, aside from owning the vessel, claims cargo damage in excess of $900,000 for ten locomotives and ten tenders owned by it and destroyed in the catastrophe. Isbrandtsen Company, Inc., was the bareboat charterer.
The United States now moves, by notice of motion, “for an order directing that a commission issue in these causes out of this Court to any Judge, Court or Tribunal designated to execute the within Letters Roga-tory by the Ministry of Justice of the…
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