The Jeannette Skinner
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore; John C. Rose, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, owner of steamship Ceylon Maru,' against the steamship Jeannette Skinner; the United States, owner and claimant. Decree for libelant, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
On November 2, 1918, the Jeannette Skinner, a vessel at all limes owned by the government, while manned by the navy and employed in the Army Cargo Transport Service, was in collision with the privately owned Japanese steamship Ceylon Maru, then under time charter to the United States, and lying at anchor off Trompeloupe, France. Rater, after the Jeanette Skinner’s release from the Transport Service, but while still rnanned by the navy and employed in carrying Food Administration cargoes, the owner of the Ceylon Maru, under assumed authority of section 9 of the Shipping…
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- The Jeannette SkinnerDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1919
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