Balboa Shipping Co., Inc. v. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

' Balboa filed its libel against Standard Fruit and Steamship Company and Standard Navigation Company as owner and operator respectively of the Gatun, whose faulty navigation was alleged to have caused the stranding of libellant’s vessel Maraví.' Both ships were merchant vessels in a convoy. WJthiii two years of the stranding, an amended libel 'in personam brought in the United States alleging that it was a bareboat charterer of the Gatun. In 1949, on the basis of newly discovered facts, libellant sought leave to file another amended libel, charging that the stranding of…