Legal Opinion
American President Lines, Ltd. v. United States
District Court, N.D. California
Decided March 30, 1961No. 27980PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 Government of Article 8 (a) of the time charter agreement in ordering the PRESIDENT ARTHUR to load at an unsafe port.
Libelant’s…
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