The H. A. Baxter
District Court, D. Connecticut
Iu Admiralty. On exceptions to the report of the clerk, as special master to state, marshal, and report claims under the twenty-fourth admiralty rule.
1Opinion of the Court
PLATT, District Judge.
This is not a pleasant case, and is full of tangles and knots. It grew out of the insolvency of the Robinson, Baxter & Dissosway Towing & Transportation Company, which formerly owned the steam tug Baxter. • Losing its active manager by death, and a large fleet of vessels by storm, it became financially involved and went to the New York state courts for protection; but the creditors petitioned it into bankruptcy in the Southern district of New York, and later the entire matter went to the Northern district of New York, where a trustee was appointed, who is now looking…
2Cited by1 opinion
- The BethlehemCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1925