THE ELWOOD

No. 364.

69 F.Supp. 368 (1947)

THE ELWOOD.

District Court, S. D. California, S. D.

January 20, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lillick, Geary, McHose & Adams and A. F. Mack, Jr., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for libelants.

Harold A. Black, George E. Toner and McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent and claimant.


YANKWICH, District Judge.

On January 22, 1943, between 11:30 p. m. and midnight, during an unusually severe storm, the Elwood, a kelp cutter 77.8 feet long and 27.9 feet wide and of 130 gross tons, broke from her usual mooring at McCormick Dock, in San Diego Bay, California.

In this libel in rem and in personam for collision, it is charged that the Betty L, a wooden fishing boat 59 feet long and 18 feet wide and of about 44 gross tons, safely moored, was struck...

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