PUGET SOUND NAV. CO. v. PUGET SOUND TUG & BARGE CO.

No. 15058.

75 F.Supp. 404 (1948)

PUGET SOUND NAV. CO. v. PUGET SOUND TUG & BARGE CO.

District Court, W. D. Washington, N. D.

January 9, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merritt, Summers & Bucey, of Seattle, Wash., and Lane Summers and Charles B. Howard, both of Seattle, Wash., for libelant.

Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Beeks, of Seattle, Wash., and W. T. Beeks and J. Allan Evans, both of Seattle, Wash., for respondent.


BOWEN, District Judge.

Statement of Facts.

Action in personam in admiralty for loss and damage sustained by libelant as the result of the collision of libelant's barges with a bridge pier when the barges were being towed by respondent's tug.

Respondent answered affirmatively that libelant promised to procure insurance to protect respondent on account of the liability here in question.

Libelant excepted to the sufficiency of this affirmative...

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