General Traffic Service Co. v. Cape San Martin

SUGARMAN, District Judge.

Libelant, General Traffic Service Co., Inc., brought this suit in admiralty against respondents SS Cape San Martin and Isthmian Steamship Co. to recover $4000, the value of an elephant which died while aboard the SS Cape San Martin en route from Colombo, Ceylon, to Savannah, Georgia.

The parties have stipulated that libelant is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Insurance Company of North America, which, although it here sued for $4000 now admits having paid a loss of but $1000, the balance of $3000 having been paid by three other underwriters.- These four $1000 payments…