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WENTZ v. HARTGE

No. 3674.

132 F.Supp. 527 (1955)

Marshall H. WENTZ and City Express, Inc., to their own use and to the use of the Home Fire and Marine Insurance Company of California, Atlantic Marine Department, a body corporate v. Robert W. HARTGE and Grace Hartge, his wife, t/a Hartge's Boat Works.

United States District Court D. Maryland, Admiralty Division.

June 24, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol. C. Berenholtz, Sol. Kaplan, Preston A. Pairo, A. B. Makover, Baltimore, Md., for libellants.

Edwin J. Wolf, Niles, Barton, Yost & Dankmeyer, Baltimore, for respondents.

CHESNUT, District Judge.

The object of this suit in admiralty is to obtain damages for the sinking of a cabin cruiser. The plaintiff, Marshall H. Wentz, was the owner of the boat Almar, which, off and on prior to its sinking on February 19, 1952, had been customarily docked at the boatyard of the defendant, Robert W. Hartge. The contention of the libellant is that he as the owner of the boat was the bailor and Hartge, as proprietor of the boatyard, was the bailee...

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