THE PURE OIL COMPANY v. THE VESSEL M/V PENNSYLVANIA

No. 27.

124 F.Supp. 121 (1954)

THE PURE OIL COMPANY, a Corporation, Libelant, v. THE VESSEL M/V PENNSYLVANIA, its engines, tackle, apparel, etc., and Union Barge Line Corporation, a Corporation, Respondent. UNION BARGE LINE CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania Corporation, as owner of THE Barges UBL-332, UBL-334, UBL-341 and UBL-345, Cross-Libelant, v. THE M/V R. H. McELROY, her engine, tackle, apparel, etc., and The Pure Oil Company, a Corporation, Cross-Respondent.

United States District Court, W. D. Kentucky, at Louisville.

September 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Hayes and Lord, Bissell & Kadyk, Chicago, Ill., Chas. I. Dawson and Bullitt, Dawson & Tarrant, Louisville, Ky., for libelant and cross-respondent.

T. K. Helm, Thomas J. Wood and Stites, Wood, Helm & Taylor, Louisville, Ky., for libelee and cross-libelant.


SHELBOURNE, Chief Judge.

This suit in Admiralty was instituted March 12, 1952, by the Pure Oil Company, a corporation, owner of the Motor Vessel McElroy, by the filing of a libel in rem against the Motor Vessel Pennsylvania, to recover damages to libelant's barges in the tow of the McElroy when the tow of that vessel came in collision with the tow of the Pennsylvania in the Ohio River at or near Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the early hours of the morning of October...

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