Gowanus Storage Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Gowanus Storage Company, Incorporated, against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
1Opinion of the Court
GARVIN, District Judge.
At the close of the trial the court announced that on the facts libelant had established its cause of action by a preponderance of evidence. The respondent, by timely objection, questioned the jurisdiction of the court.
*529The libel was filed against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, and alleges that the libelant was in possession of a certain dock and pier at the foot of Twentieth and Twenty-First streets in the borough of 'Brooklyn, city of New York, as lessee; that because of the manner in which the steamship Western Belle, in possession and…
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