GRAHAM v. STANDARD WHOLESALE PHOSPHATE & ACID WORKS

No. 6055.

181 F.2d 50 (1950)

GRAHAM et al. v. STANDARD WHOLESALE PHOSPHATE & ACID WORKS, Inc. et al. THE M. L. SYLVIA. THE STANCO ACID NO. 4. THE BLANCHE T. ROGERS.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 5, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stevenson Masson, Baltimore, Md. (Robert G. Kelly, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

John H. Skeen, Baltimore, Md. (Frank Skeen & Oppenheimer and John H. Skeen, Jr., Baltimore, Md., on the brief) for appellees Harbor Towing Corporation and Diesel Tug Blanche T. Rogers.

George W. P. Whip, Baltimore, Md. (Lord, Whip & Coughlan, Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellees Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, Inc., Standard Liquidating Corporation and Mathieson Chemical Corporation.

Before SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and HUTCHESON, District Judge.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This case arose out of a collision which occurred on May 13, 1948, in the Delaware River at a point opposite Edgemoor, Delaware, between the tank barge Stanco Acid No. 4, while in tow of the diesel tug Blanche T. Rogers, and the motor barge M. L. Sylvia. As a result of the collision the tank barge was sunk and its cargo of 1700 tons of sulfuric acid is alleged to have become a total loss. The owners of the tank barge and its cargo filed a libel...

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