MATHIESON CHEMICAL CORP. v. THE SADIE

Nos. 3065, 3079.

95 F.Supp. 221 (1950)

MATHIESON CHEMICAL CORP. v. THE SADIE et al. BLACK DIAMOND S. S. CORP. v. THE SADIE et al. THE STANCO ACID NO. 5. THE UNION VICTORY.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

December 19, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunt, Hill & Betts, of New York City (John W. Crandall and Robert M. Donohue, of New York City, Theodore R. Dankmeyer and Charles E. Quandt, of Baltimore, Md., of counsel), Niles, Barton, Morrow & Yost, of Baltimore, Md., for Black Diamond Steamship Corp. and United States of America.

Frank, Skeen & Oppenheimer, of Baltimore, Md. (John H. Skeen and John H. Skeen, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for Steamtug Sadie and Harbor Towing Corporation.

George W. P. Whip, of Baltimore, Md., for Mathieson Chemical Corporation, owner of Tank Barge Stanco Acid No. 5.


COLEMAN, Chief Judge.

This is a case of collision between a steamer and a tug and her tow, which occurred in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on July 14, 1948.

Shortly before dawn on that day, the Union Victory, a Victory ship 455 feet long, 62 feet beam, with a mean draft of 17 feet and 7606 gross tonnage, while under bareboat charter from the United States Maritime Commission to the Black Diamond Steamship Corporation, was proceeding eastbound through the...

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