Moon Engineering Co. v. S.S. Valiant Power

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In the preliminary stages of this proceeding certain questions have arisen with respect to alleged preferential payments from the proceeds of the sale of the SS Valiant Power.

The vessel was arrested by '.he United States Marshal on December 31, 1959, while docked at the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ore pier at Newport News, Virginia. After completion of discharge activities, it became necessary to remove the vessel from her berth. Accordingly, letters from various proctors addressed to the Marshal directed that the vessel could be moved from the pier to…