O'BRIEN BROS. v. MORAN TOWING CORPORATION

Nos. 16899, 16914.

66 F.Supp. 614 (1946)

O'BRIEN BROS., v. MORAN TOWING CORPORATION et al. BEARD'S ERIE BASIN, Inc., v. THE EARLY LIGHT et al. THE EARLY LIGHT.

District Court, E. D. New York.

March 26, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hagen & Eidenbach and Nelson J. Johnson, all of New York City, for Beard's Erie Basin, Inc.

Foley & Martin and Christopher Heckman, all of New York City, for O'Brien Brothers, Inc.

Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper and Frederic Conger, all of New York City, for Moran Towing Corporation.

Macklin, Brown, Lenahan & Speer, and Leo F. Hanan, all of New York City, for Pittston Stevedoring Corporation.


KENNEDY, District Judge.

These suits arise out of the capsizing of the deck scow Early Light on August 10, 1943, at the Elevator Dock at Erie Basin. On August 9 and 10, 1943, employees of the impleaded respondent Pittston Stevedoring Corporation1 were then discharging ballast from S. S. Oremar into Early Light. The scow was under charter to Moran Towing Corporation at the time, and had been since July 10, 1943. One suit is by the owners...

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