ISTHMIAN STEAMSHIP CO. v. JARKA CORP. OF BALTIMORE

No. 3255.

100 F.Supp. 856 (1951)

ISTHMIAN STEAMSHIP CO. v. JARKA CORP. OF BALTIMORE. THE CAPE FRIENDSHIP.

United States District Court Maryland Admiralty Division.

October 25, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ober, Grimes & Stinson, Baltimore, Md., Wm. A. Grimes, Baltimore, Md., Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, for libellant.

Clark, Thomsen & Smith, Baltimore, Md., J. Gilbert Prendergast, Baltimore, Md., for Respondent.


CHESNUT, District Judge.

On June 30, 1947 two propeller blades of the steamship Cape Friendship, owned by the Maritime Commission but demised to the Isthmian Steamship Company, were damaged by a steel barge operated by the Jarka Corporation of Baltimore, which was engaged in unloading the contents of the barge to the ship. The ship was a cargo ship about 400 feet long and of 6711 gross tons lying alongside a Canton pier in the Baltimore Harbor for loading.

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