In re Erlandsen

BOWEN, District Judge.

I believe that any admiralty lawyer representing these claimants would have been justified in filing actions here on the ground of unseaworthiness, particularly after reading Judge Cushman’s decision, The Warren, D.C., 40 F.2d 700, and others in this Circuit relating to the presumption which arises by reason of the unexplained destruction and loss of a vessel at sea, and particularly the loss and destruction of this vessel at sea; and where, as I indicate, there is no known explanation of it at the time of filing such suit.

Judge Cushman’s interpretation of this Circuit’s…