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THE JOHN F. HARRIS

51 F.2d 242 (1929)

THE JOHN F. HARRIS. THE WYOMISSING. HARRIS et al. v. PORT READING R. CO.

District Court, S. D. New York.

September 5, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Park, Mattison & Lynch, of New York City (Anthony V. Lynch, Jr., of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Macklin, Brown, Lenahan & Speer, of New York City (Horace L. Cheyney, of New York City, of counsel), for the Wyomissing and respondent.

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

My decision in this case is that the libel must be dismissed as against the tug Wyomissing, but that the libelant may recover against the Port Reading Railroad Company in personam.

The facts are in the main admitted.

On Sunday morning, April 3, 1927, at about 6:15 a. m. the tug Wyomissing arrived with a flotilla of nineteen light coal barges at Port Reading. The barges were arranged in six tiers of three barges to the tier...

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