INDEPENDENT PIER CO. v. CHARLES WARNER CO.

Nos. 3633, 3634.

20 F.2d 111 (1927)

INDEPENDENT PIER CO. v. CHARLES WARNER CO. GULF REFINING CO. v. SAME. THE GULFTRADE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

June 7, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Biddle, Paul, Dawson & Yocum, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Burlingham, Veeder, Masten & Fearey, of New York City (H. Alan Dawson, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Chauncey I. Clark, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant Gulf Refining Co.

Howard M. Long, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant Independent Pier Co.

Acker, Manning & Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Everett H. Brown, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellee.

Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case grows out of a collision between the steamship Gulftrade and a flotilla of sand and gravel scows, which took place on the Schuylkill river, just off the Delaware river. The collision took place in broad daylight and under navigable conditions which made it really inexcusable and inexplicable, except through the fault of those concerned. Both the four scows under tow and the Gulftrade, following, were coming up the Delaware river...

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