POCAHONTAS STEAMSHIP CO. v. THE ESSO ARUBA

Nos. 1565, 1586.

94 F.Supp. 486 (1950)

POCAHONTAS STEAMSHIP CO. v. The ESSO ARUBA. STANDARD OIL CO. v. POCAHONTAS STEAMSHIP CO. The ISAAC T. MANN.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

September 11, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 1565:

Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Thomas H. Walsh, Boston, Mass., for respondent.

No. 1586:

Thomas H. Walsh, Boston, Mass., Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, New York City, for petitioner.

Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., for respondent.


McCARTHY, District Judge.

These cross-libels in admiralty arise out of a collision between the S.S. Isaac T. Mann (hereinafter called the Mann), owned by Pocahontas Steamship Company, and the S.S. Esso Aruba (hereinafter called the Aruba), owned by Standard Oil Company. The collision occurred on May 18, 1948, in the East Passage of Narragansett Bay in the waters between Gould Island and Rose Island, in dense fog.

Action was commenced by the filing of a libel...

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