Schilling v. Dannebrog

In an opinion reported in 204 F.Supp. 899, Judge Bryan laid down general principles to guide the resolution of a complex of claims by owners of vessels that had been time-chartered to the bankrupt, North Atlantic and Gulf Steamship Company (Norgulf), by stevedores who had rendered services to the chartered vessels, and by Norgulfs trustee in bankruptcy. The quality of his opinion, apparent from a reading of it, is even more impressively attested by the absence of appeal from any but two of the fourteen issues he decided. Although both these issues are, so far as we have been able to discover, of novel impression, and they seem somewhat more difficult to us than they did to Judge Bryan, we think he reached the correct results.