Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. The S/S Green Bay

RUBIN, District Judge:

Aetna Casualty and Surety Company (Aetna), as subrogee of its insured, J. A. Jones Construction Company, sued the S/S GREEN BAY and Central Gulf Steamship Corporation (Central Gulf) for the value of used construction equipment being shipped to the United States as deck cargo from a port in Iraq and lost in a storm at sea in .the Western Mediterranean on January 12, 1966. The suit was filed on November 9, 1967; a trial request by Aetna was filed in the record on January 19, 1968.

The court set the case for pre-trial conference on April 30, 1968. On April 22, 1968 the court…