Cruickshank & Co. v. Sorros

OAKES, Circuit Judge.

This strange admiralty case, on submission to us, involves as real party plaintiff a proprietorship in Rajkat, India, conducting a ship’s agency and stevedoring business in certain Indian ports, including the port of Vadinar. A vessel for which the plaintiff was acting as agent arrived at that port short of diesel bunker oil and hence unable to discharge its petroleum cargo; after four days of mooring with tug assistance, the vessel was towed out to an anchorage at sea by the port operator, an Indian governmental authority, which proceeded to assess the vessel, and when…