United States v. The Pietro Campanella

CHESNUT, District Judge.

The first two of the above three cases are libels filed by the United States for forfeiture of the Italian steamships Campanella and Euro respectively under the Act of Congress of June 15, 1917, as amended, now codified as 50 U.S.C.A. §§ 191-194, in alleged consequence of the wilful injury to the ships and their machinery and equipment for which certain officers and seamen thereof had previously been convicted in this court under 18 U.S.C.A. § 502, appeals in the latter cases being now pending. The third of the above cases, No. 2490, is a proceeding by a private party…