Maru Nav. Co. v. Societa Commerciale Italiana Di Navigation
District Court, D. Maryland
In Admiralty. Suit by the Maru Navigation Company against the Societa Commerciale Italiana di Navigation.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
[1 ] The instant proceedings were instituted in August, 1918, by the filing of a libel against the respondent, in personam, with a clause of foreign attachment, under which the steamship Armando was arrested. Both the Italian consul and the ambassador of Italy made separate, but substantially identical, suggestions to the court that the Armando was immune, because it was at the time under requisition to the government of Italy, and in the actual possession of that government. As neither of these suggestions came through our State Department, I declined to consider them as…
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- United States v. Cornell Steamboat Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1906
- The SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- The AttualitaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1916
- Stephens v. Phœnix Bridge Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
- The AdaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1916
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Transportes Maritimos Do Estado v. T. A. Scott Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1924
- Johnson & Higgins v. Charles F. Garrigues Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1929