THE PLEIADES

No. 160.

9 F.2d 804 (1926)

THE PLEIADES. LUCKENBACH S. S. CO., Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

January 4, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emory R. Buckner, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Horace M. Gray, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.

Carter & Phillips, of New York City (Peter S. Carter and Robert Phillips, both of New York City, of counsel), for claimant of the Pleiades.

Before HOUGH, MANTON, and HAND, Circuit Judges.


MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The Lake Delancey was operated by the United States of America and the Pleiades by the Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., on May 21, 1920, when, with the day calm and clear, the vessels collided at the Horseshoe Bend in the Delaware river. The Lake Delancey backed out of her coaling berth at Greenwich coal piers, just below Philadelphia, at about 12:55 p. m., with the assistance of a tug, and straightened out into the river and proceeded on...

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