RELIANCE MAR. T. & C. CORP. v. MICHAEL SCHIAVONE & SONS

No. 4564.

161 F.Supp. 121 (1957)

RELIANCE MARINE TRANSPORTATION & CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, as owner of THE ELIZABETH JORDAN, Libelant, v. MICHAEL SCHIAVONE & SONS, Inc., Respondent.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

December 27, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah D. Shea, New Haven, Conn., Frank C. Mason of Mahar & Mason, New York City, for libelant.

Edward J. Brennan, New Haven, Conn., Thomas H. Middleton (of Hill, Rivkins, Middleton), Louis & Warburton, New York City, for respondent.


J. JOSEPH SMITH, Chief Judge.

Libelant's barge Elizabeth Jordan was alongside respondent's dock on the Quinnipiac River at New Haven to take on a cargo of 800 tons of scrap iron. On June 7, 1956, after she was partly loaded with some 150 tons of scrap respondent's employees shifted her sternward about 25 feet to facilitate loading through the forward hatches. This placed her starboard stern over a shallow area of the bottom on which there were rubble and scrap bales...

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