Grays Harbor Stevedoring Co. v. United States

CUSPIMAN, District Judge.

These cases are now before the court upon exceptions to the libel. In each case libelant avers that it is a corporation of the state of Washington, with its principal place-of business at Aberdeen, in this district and division. In one case it is-averred that the Cape Romain, and in the other that the West Haven, is, and was at the times mentioned in the libel, a merchant vessel owned, by the respondent, United States of America, with its home port at Baltimore, Md. This the court considers equivalent to an averment that each vessel was at the time mentioned “employed…