Broere v. Two Thousand One Hundred Thirty-Three Dollars

GALSTON, District Judge.

This libel seeks to recover part of a sum of $2,133 which was found on the person of Charles A. Amott after the body had been found in the waters of Great South Bay by the libellant and towed to Bayshore, Suffolk County, Long Island.

The sufficiency o¡f the libel was challenged by the claimant in a motion made before trial. Judge Kennedy of this court, in an opinion filed June 13, 1947, 72 F.Supp. 115, overruled the exception to the libel, and that decision is accepted as the law of the case.

It appears that the decedent was drowned on or about January 3, 1947, while…