THE JOHN F. LEWIS

No. 53.

51 F.2d 274 (1930)

The JOHN F. LEWIS.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 12, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar & Jones, of New York City, and Acker, Manning & Brown and Everett H. Brown, Jr., all of Philadelphia, Pa., for libelant.

Lewis, Adler & Laws and Otto Wolff, Jr., all of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The libelants were insurers of a grain elevator hull which was damaged in a collision with a scow of unknown ownership, and in this action in admiralty they seek to recover against the tug John F. Lewis which at the time of collision had the elevator hull in tow. The facts are as follows: On June 19, 1922, the Lewis, with her tow, on a voyage from Wilmington to New York, was about to enter New York harbor. The tow consisted of, first,...

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