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TUCKER STEVEDORING CO. v. W. H. GAHAGAN

Nos. 1149, 1165.

6 F.2d 407 (1925)

TUCKER STEVEDORING CO. v. W. H. GAHAGAN, Inc. THE CLAREMONT.

District Court, D. Delaware.

May 25, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis S. Laws (of Lewis, Adler & Laws), of Philadelphia, Pa., and William G. Mahaffy, of Wilmington, Del., for libelant.

Austin J. McMahon, of New York City, and Francis De H. Janvier and Edmund S. Hellings, both of Wilmington, Del., for respondent and claimant.

MORRIS, District Judge.

About midnight of December 1, 1923, the barge Glee, owned by the libelant, Tucker Stevedoring Company, sank in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at a point in the deep cut west of Summit Bridge. Injuries to the barge had caused it to fill with water and overturn. To recover its damages, the libelant instituted these two suits in admiralty. One is in personam against W. H. Gahagan, Inc., which was engaged in widening the canal, by the removal...

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