Legal Opinion
United States v. Caffey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 3, 1944No. 38PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The sole issue is whether, under the Public Vessels Act of 1925, 43 Stat. 1112, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 781-790, the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York -has jurisdiction of a suit in admiralty now pending therein. It was brought by filing a libel in person-am against the United States to recover from the government, as in an action in rem, the damages sustained in the total loss of a ship and its cargo in a collision alleged to have been due solely to the fault of a vessel which had been delivered to the British Government under the…
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