District Court, S.D. New York October 16, 1946 (Mangalia)

HULBERT, District Judge.

Nine libellants filed four suits in Admiralty to recover damages alleged to have been sustained to various shipments of fur skins laden aboard the M/S Mangaba at Constanza, Roumania, on April 22nd and/or 23, 1940, in apparent good order, arriving at New York on or about June 2, 1940, and there delivered to the consignees about. June 6, 1940.

The first libel (Ad.