Timbs v. Southern Transp. Co.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal in three companion cases brought by the administrators of the estates of three seamen who lost their lives when the Southern Transportation Company’s seagoing tug, the Menominee, was shelled and sunk by an enemy submarine off the coast of Virginia in 1942. The suits were brought against the owner and operator of the tug on the theory that it was obliged by decisions of the Maritime War Emergency Board to provide for each seaman insurance in the amount of $5,000 against loss of life due to risks of war, and also to provide reimbursement for…