DIAMOND STATE TEL. CO. v. ATLANTIC REFINING CO.

Nos. 10867, 10877.

205 F.2d 402 (1953)

DIAMOND STATE TEL. CO. v. ATLANTIC REFINING CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1953.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin F. Stahl, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Diamond State Tel. Co.

Otto Wolff, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for Atlantic Refining Co.

Frances A. Scanlan, Philadelphia, Pa. (Robert G. Kelly, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for P. F. Martin Co. and Martug Towing Co.

Before McLAUGHLIN, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


STALEY, Circuit Judge.

These appeals from a final decree in admiralty require us to untangle a near-collision case in which respondent's tanker, although it managed to miss the three other vessels on the scene, struck and damaged libellant's submarine cable.1

Libellant runs two of its telephone cables over the floor of the Delaware River between Deepwater Point, New Jersey, and Pigeon Point, Delaware. The south cable having failed...

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