Granite Chemical Corp. v. Northeast Coal & Dock Corp.

GIGNOUX, District Judge.

This is a libel in personam to recover for damage to a cargo of saltcake which was shipped from Bremen, Germany, to Bucksport, Maine, in March 1964 aboard the SS ELISABETH SCHULTE, a vessel owned by respondent Schulte & Bruns and under charter to respondent Kali-Transport Gesellschaft M.B.H. The libel was filed on June 30, 1965. On July 1, 1965, a Deputy United States Marshal attempted service upon Schulte & Bruns by serving a citation with a copy of the libel upon Chase, Leavitt & Co., a general steamship agency in Portland, Maine. Schulte & Bruns has filed a special…