Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation v. Joseph Gutradt Co.

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

This was a libel filed by Joseph Gutradt Company, appellee here, against the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, for damages to cargo. The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, appellant, was the third party respondent, having been impleaded by the Pacific Mail Company, which prayed for judgment over on the ground that the cause of the damage to the cargo was the Bethlehem Corporation’s breach of a contract to repair the ship Ecuador. The decree was in favor of the Gutradt Company, libelant, against the Pacific Mail Company, with judgment over against the Bethlehem Corporation,…