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PETTERSON LIGHTERAGE & TOWING CORPORATION v. BELGIAN LINE

No. 299, Docket 24953.

253 F.2d 952 (1958)

PETTERSON LIGHTERAGE & TOWING CORPORATION, as owner of THE Lighter KOALA, Libelant-Appellant, v. BELGIAN LINE, Incorporated, formerly known as Atlantic Overseas Corporation, and Compagnie Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal) S. A., Respondents-Appellees, and Transoceanic Terminal Corporation, Respondent-Impleaded-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 17, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Smith, of Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City (James Proud, New York City, on the brief), for Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corp., appellant.

J. Newton Nash, of Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City (Eli Ellis, of Hill, Betts & Nash, and Robert H. Peterson, New York City, on the brief), for appellees Belgian Line, Inc., and Compagnie Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal) S. A.

Horace T. Atkins, of Atkins & Weymar, New York City, for appellee Transoceanic Terminal Corp.

George B. Warburton, of Hill, Rivkins, Middleton, Louis & Warburton, New York City, for appellee Amerlux Steel Products Corp.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and L. HAND and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

These are appeals involving four consolidated actions in admiralty brought to establish responsibility for the dumping of a cargo of steel rods and beams into New York Harbor. The cargo was owned by Amerlux Steel Products Corporation and had been shipped on the "Belgian Line's" M/V Houffalize from Antwerp to New York, where it was berthed at the Belgian pier. The shipowners procured the Koala on oral charter from its owner, Petterson Lighterage & Towing...

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