Legal Opinion
Complaint of Cosmopolitan Shipping Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 23, 1978No. 77 Civ. 1425PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.
On March 20, 1977, the S.S. Claude Conway sank off the coast of the United States, and one Franco Matascone, an Italian citizen, was killed. The owners of the ship instituted a limitation proceeding in this court pursuant to 46 U.S.C. § 185, on March 23, 1977. In the course of that proceeding, a dispute arose as to who was the proper “personal representative” of Franco Matascone for purposes of prosecuting this action. The New York County Public. Administrator claimed that he had been duly appointed by the Surrogate’s Court of the County of New York as…
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