Palmer v. United States

S. H. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

This libel is brought under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., for injuries sustained by libelants Bartin and Champlin and for the death of libelants Palmer’s and Funken’s intestates when the Liberty ship SS Henry Bacon was torpedoed by enemy bombers and sank in the waters of the north Atlantic on February 23, 1945.

It was consolidated at the trial with the libel in the case of Flora Haviland McGrath against South Atlantic SS Line, without prejudice to the rights of respondent there to assert certain defenses, which were raised by exceptive…