UNITED STATES LIGHTERAGE CORP. v. PETTERSON L. & T. CORP.

No. 297.

142 F.2d 197 (1944)

UNITED STATES LIGHTERAGE CORPORATION v. PETTERSON LIGHTERAGE & TOWING CORPORATION et al. THE JANE ANNE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

April 26, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Purdy & Lamb, of New York City (Edmund F. Lamb and Thomas J. Irving, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant National Operating Co., Inc.

Thomas A. McDonald, of New York City, for libellant-appellee.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The libellant chartered the Deck Scow "Jane Anne" to the respondent Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corporation under the ordinary New York Harbor charter terms, whereby libellant was to pay for the bargee and the charterer was to pay a specified price per day for the vessel. The "Jane Anne" when delivered was tight, staunch and strong, but when she was returned a few days later had been damaged by fire. Thereupon the libellant filed its libel against...

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