STEERS SAND & GRAVEL CORP. v. WORTMANN & SONS


74 F.Supp. 806 (1947)

STEERS SAND & GRAVEL CORPORATION v. WORTMANN & SONS, Inc., et al. THE H. S. INC. NO. 63.

District Court, S. D. New York.

September 24, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Macklin, Brown, Lenahan & Speer, of New York City, for libellant.

John P. Smith, of New York City (Joseph A. Minch, of New York City, of counsel), for respondent.

Van Orman & Harmon, of New York City (James A. Travis, of New York City, of counsel), for impleaded respondents.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

Libellant, Steers Sand & Gravel Corp., as owner of the Scow "H. S. INC. #63", brought a suit in admiralty in this court on December 2, 1946. The libel charged that the respondent, Wortmann & Sons, Inc., on June 6, 1944, was engaged in unloading the scow which was moored at Hoffman Island with a cargo of sand and gravel; that the crane used in unloading the cargo "was so negligently operated and controlled, etc. by respondent that the...

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