Banque-Russo Asiatique-London v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suit by the Banque-Russo Asiatique-London against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, owner of the Steamship Kittegaun, with Charles Kurz & Co., Incorporated as garnishee. On petition to set aside service of citation and to dissolve foreign attachment.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, District Judge.
The present suit is upon a libel in personam in a cause of breach of contract, civil and maritime. The libelant’s claim is based upon a charge for demurrage alleged to be in violation of the bill of lading under which the steamship Kittegaun had carried from Batoun to Philadelphia a cargo of manganese ore.
It is alleged in the libel that the Kittegaun was operated by the Export Steamship Corporation, of New York, for and on behalf of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, and employed solely as a merchant vessel, as used and contemplated in the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Gould Coupler Co. v. U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1919
- Commonwealth Finance Corp. v. LandisDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1919
- Perna v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1920
3Cited by8 opinions
- Providence Engineering Corp. v. Downey Shipbuilding Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- John G. Wright & Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1922
- Markle v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1925
- Villigas v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1922
- The ColdwaterDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 1922
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