FOX v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 171, 295, and 305 of 1945.

78 F.Supp. 133 (1947)

FOX et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. THE LOVELAND 50. THE CLATSOP. THE VISITOR COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. THE LOVELAND 50 et al. UNITED STATES v. THE VISITOR et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

October 8, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rawle & Henderson, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Fox and Loveland, respondents.

Howard M. Long, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Lewis F. Boyer, Jr., et al., petitioners and owners and claimants of the Visitor.

Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., Russell L. Hiller, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Reading, Pa., and John T. Casey, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Frank Staley of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the United States.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This suit in admiralty arises out of a collision between the dredge Clatsop and the barge Loveland 50 which, at the time, was in tow of the tug Visitor.

At about 2:30 A. M., December 4, 1944, the Clatsop was coming down the Schuylkill River near its mouth intending to turn to the right into the Delaware River and proceed down the Delaware. At the same time the tug Visitor, with the barge made fast on its port side, was in the Delaware...

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