Pineiro v. United States

GOODMAN, District Judge.

This cause has been submitted to the court for decision on the merits after trial. Previously the court determined respondent’s exceptions to the libel (D.C., 62 F. Supp. 95) but there expressly refrained from passing upon respondent’s contention that the Suits in Admiralty Act, 41 Stat. 525, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., does not impose liability in personam upon the United States based upon the unseaworthiness of a vessel time chartered to the United States, reserving decision on that question for the trial.

After a study of the “historical background and considerations…