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DREYFUS v. HEDGER TRANSP. CO.

60 F.2d 571 (1932)

DREYFUS et al. v. HEDGER TRANSP. CO. THE PEARL HARBOR. THE R. LENAHAN. THE HARVESTER. THE GILBERT W. BENEDICT.

District Court, S. D. New York.

July 21, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto & Lyon, of New York City (Henry E. Otto, of New York City, of counsel), for libelants.

Single & Single, of New York City (George B. Warburton, of New York City, of counsel), for claimant Richard J. Foster.

William F. Purdy, of New York City (Edmund F. Lamb and John E. Purdy, both of New York City, of counsel), for Hedger Transportation Co., W. E. Hedger Co., and Pearl Harbor, Inc.

Macklin, Brown, Lenahan & Speer, of New York City (Richard F. Lenahan, of New York City, of counsel), for L & L Canal Line, Inc.

FRANK J. COLEMAN, District Judge.

On August 25, 1928, the barge Harvester, en route from Buffalo to New York, struck a cement wall at a spillway of the canal on the south side of the Sixty Mile Level, causing such injury to her lower corner that she shortly thereafter sank, with considerable damage to her cargo of grain. She was the first in a tow of four heavily loaded barges in tandem, and the barge Gilbert W. Benedict was the third in line. The tug Pearl Harbor...

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