THE MONTROSE

No. 16169.

47 F.Supp. 719 (1942)

THE MONTROSE. Petition of EASTERN TRANSP. CO.

District Court, E. D. New York.

September 9, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foley & Martin, of New York City (Christopher E. Heckman, of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

George B. Warburton and Abraham Kaplan, both of New York City, for claimant Welch.

Halpert & Burger, of New York City (I. G. Halpert, of New York City, of counsel), for claimant Santos.

Paul C. Matthews, of New York City (C. John Dirosse, of New York City, of counsel), for claimant Oxner.

Carpenter & Stevenson, of New York City (A. F. Richard, of Boston, Mass., and J. T. Carpenter, both of New York City, of counsel), for claimant O'Hara.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, Thomas H. Walsh, of Boston, Mass., and Nathan Thompson, of Portland, Maine (Andrew J. McElhinney, of New York City, of counsel), for claimant Sheridan.


CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This is a petition for exoneration from or limitation of liability, filed by the Eastern Transportation Company, owner of the tug "Montrose".

This litigation finds its beginning in a collision between the fishing schooner "Mary E. O'Hara", and the barge "Winifred Sheridan", in Broad Sound, outside of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on the early morning of January 21st, 1941.

Three separate limitation proceedings have resulted...

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