PETITION OF POTOMAC SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY

No. 4667.

253 F.Supp. 268 (1966)

Petition of POTOMAC SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY, as Owner of the BARGE 125 for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability in a Cause of Cable Damage, Civil and Maritime.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

April 15, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlyle Barton, Jr., Donald A. Krach, Niles, Barton, Gans & Markell, Baltimore, Md., for petitioner.

Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., Paul M. Rosenberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., and Bertram E. Snyder, Atty., Admiralty and Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for claimant.


WINTER, District Judge.

This proceeding for exoneration, or limitation of liability, arises from the following:

The Mattawoman Creek, approximately 4,400 feet in width, is a navigable body of water within Charles County, Maryland, approximately thirty miles south of Washington, D. C., which flows in a southwesterly direction into the Potomac River. The place of its confluence with the Potomac River is known as Indian Head, Maryland, consisting of Cornwallis...

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