Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-28 | Page 18 | American Courts Can Libel Ships

AMERICAN COURTS j CAN LIBEL SHIPS WASHINGTON'. Feb. 2. Merchant vessels which are the property of a friendly state or In Its own service can be libeled in American courts, the supreme court ruled today. The opinion of the court waa given In the case of the Italian ships Pesaro and Carlo Poma. which had been 11- beled by shippers for damages reault-ing reault-ing from louses to cargoes. Decrees of the district court at New York dismissing dis-missing the libel attachments were overruled.