THE CASTLETON

No. 11966.

60 F.2d 132 (1932)

THE CASTLETON. UNITED STATES GYPSUM CO. v. McWILLIAMS et al.

District Court, E. D. New York.

June 8, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace M. Gray, of New York City, for libelant.

Purdy & Purdy, of New York City, for respondent McWilliams.

Barry, Wainwright, Thacher & Symmers, of New York City (Earle Farwell, of New York City, of counsel), for respondent United States Gypsum Transp. Co.


BYERS, District Judge.

In this cause the libelant, as cargo owner, seeks to recover for the total loss of 390 tons of plaster laden on the covered barge Castleton, which overturned at the bulkhead of the libelant situated at 135th street and the East River, on November 7, 1928.

The barge was under charter to the respondent-impleaded (a subsidiary, roughly speaking, of the libelant) under the usual harbor charter by which the owner provided and paid the wages...

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