United States v. the SS Washington

ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.

The questions now before the court, on the remittitur holding The Texas Company also at fault, 4 Cir., 241 F.2d 819, are (a) the amount of damages to be awarded under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 761, against Texas in the deaths of four of the soldiers killed aboard the U.S.S. Rueham-kin in her collision with Texas’ tanker Washington; (b) whether remarriage.of the soldier’s widow could be considered in diminution of her pecuniary loss in his death; (c) whether his pain and suffering is an item of' the damages; and (d) whether against the…