Esso Standard v. Steamship Arosa Sun

FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge.

Libelants in these two suits in admiralty move for a consolidated decree pro confesso. The proposed decree provides that the sum of $10,025.30 in the hands of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, (Schroder), attached under clauses of foreign attachment and claimed to be credits and effects of respondent Arosa Line, Inc., shall be apportioned among and paid to libelants in partial satisfaction of the decree. Caribbean Cruise Lines, Inc. opposes the motion claiming that it is entitled to these funds under a later foreign attachment. Other parties…