Lauro v. United States

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Thé libellant appeals from a decree in the admiralty upon a libel against the United States, filed under the Public Vessels Act,1 which awarded damages for the death of her husband, a stevedore, while at work upon a public vessel of the United States. The award was $25,000, to which the decree now before us added interest at four per cent' from October 5, 1945, the date of an earlier decree. Upon the libellant’s appeal she claims interest at six per cent from the date of her husband’s death, May 27, 1943. On September 22, 1947, we decided this precise point upon a…