MOORE-McCORMACK LINES v. THE ESSO CAMDEN

No. 148, Docket 24265.

244 F.2d 198 (1957)

MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, Inc., as charterer in possession of THE Steamship WILLIAM S. HALSTED, Libellant-Appellant, v. THE Tank Steamship ESSO CAMDEN, Standard Oil Company (N. J.), Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, New York City (Adrian J. O'Kane and Richard W. Palmer, New York City, of counsel, on the brief), for libellant-appellant.

Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City (Raymond T. Greene, Stephen J. Buckley and Ira A. Campbell, New York City, of counsel, on the brief), for claimant-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

Cross appeals are taken by two ships from damages awarded resulting from a collision in 1946 for which both ships were held to be at fault. The questions raised concern the measure of reimbursement to both ships for losses from their respective detentions and for the outlay by libellant of general average disbursements.

On November 2, 1946, the S. S. William S. Halsted collided with the tank steamship Esso Camden in Chesapeake Bay....

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