THE BENJAMIN WILLIAMS

No. 1032.

74 F.Supp. 119 (1947)

THE BENJAMIN WILLIAMS. UNITED STATES v. NEW ENGLAND COAL & COKE CO. et al.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

September 18, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. McCarthy, U. S. Atty., and Gerald J. McCarthy, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass., for libelant.

Joseph P. Sullivan, Hurlburt, Jones, Hall & Bickford and Francis P. Garland, all of Boston, Mass., for Mystic Terminal Co., impleaded respondent.

Bingham, Dana & Gould and Albert T. Gould, both of Boston, Mass., for respondent.


FORD, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the United States as owner of the S. S. Benjamin Williams seeking to recover for damage alleged to have been done to the vessel on or about October 19, 1942, while under charter to the respondent New England Coal & Coke Company (hereinafter called the Coal Company). The charterer duly impleaded a public wharfinger, the Mystic Terminal Company (hereinafter called Terminal), on the ground that if there was any damage...

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