THE SNUG HARBOR


46 F.2d 143 (1930)

THE SNUG HARBOR.

District Court, E. D. New York.

December 23, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard W. Ameli, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Charles E. Wythe, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, and F. R. Conway, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the United States.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City, and Baird, White & Lanning, of Norfolk, Va. (Charles R. Hickox and Clement C. Rinehart, both of New York City, of counsel), for respondents.


GALSTON, District Judge.

The petitioner seeks to limit its liability for damages sustained by the barges Winstead and Vermillion, which, while on a voyage from Norfolk to Boston, laden with coal, and while passing between Montauk Point and Block Island, struck an obstruction and sank approximately four and a half miles east by north from Montauk Light.

Suits were begun in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by the Eastern...

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