United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. v. Banque Russo Asiatique, London

GIBSON, District Judge.

The present case is an appeal from a decree in admiralty. No dispute exists as to certain of the facts. The steamship Kittegaun, owned by the United States and operated by the Export Steamship Corporation of New York for the appellant, arrived at the port of Philadelphia on February 26, 1920, at 5 p. m., with a cargo consisting, in part, of 3,100 tons of peroxide of manganese ore consigned to the appellee. On the following day she was entered at the custom house, and late on February 28, 1920, at 5 p. m., she docked at Point House Pier, Philadelphia. This day was…