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THE LIZZIE D. SHAW

No. 4491.

47 F.2d 820 (1931)

THE LIZZIE D. SHAW. THE RITA DEMPSEY. SHAW et al. v. DEMPSEY SONS BARGE CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis, Adler & Laws, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Francis S. Laws, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellants.

Samuel B. Fortenbaugh, Jr., J. T. Manning, Jr., and Acker, Manning & Brown, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.

Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The owners of the Barge "Rita Dempsey" filed a libel in rem against the Tug "Lizzie D. Shaw" to recover damages sustained by the "Dempsey" in a collision between that barge and two other barges while she was in tow of the "Shaw." From an interlocutory decree sustaining the libel the claimant of the tug appealed.

Though presented as one action with related parts, there really were four distinct phases of this occurrence in each of which...

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