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UNITED FRUIT CO. v. MOBILE TOWING & WRECKING CO.

Nos. 2558, 2588.

177 F.Supp. 297 (1959)

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, a Corporation, Libelant, v. MOBILE TOWING & WRECKING COMPANY, Inc., a corporation; Mobile Harbor Pilots Association, an unincorporated association; Mobile Harbor Pilots Association, a corporation; and Percy Manders, Jr., Respondents. UNITED STATES of America, Libelant, v. THE VERAGUA, her engines, boilers, tackle, and apparel, in rem and United Fruit Steamship Corp., in personam, Respondent and Petitioner (Mobile Towing & Wrecking Company, Inc., and Percy Manders, Jr., Impleaded-Respondents).

United States District Court S. D. Alabama, S. D.

September 30, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Twitty and Thomas E. Twitty Jr., of Inge & Twitty, Mobile, Ala., for United Fruit Co.

Ralph Kennamer, U. S. Atty., Alfred P. Holmes, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for the United States.

C. B. Arendall, Jr., and T. Massey Bedsole, of Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, Ala., for Mobile Towing & Wrecking Co.

Percy Manders, Jr., in pro. per.

THOMAS, District Judge.

This is a consolidated action in Admiralty, involving two different suits and a Fifty-Sixth Rule Petition, 28 U.S.C.A., arising out of events which occurred on the night of November 22, 1954, on the east side of Mobile River, when the United Fruit Company's S.S. Veragua, while shifting in Mobile Harbor, touched up against a moored vessel, the S.S. Silver Mariner, owned by the United States of America. United Fruit Company, seeking recompense...

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