PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. S.S. MARIE LEONHARDT

No. 13 of 1959.

202 F.Supp. 368 (1962)

The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Libellant, v. S.S. MARIE LEONHARDT, her engines, tackle, apparel, and furniture, and against all persons intervening and their interest in the same, Claimant. LEONHARDT & BLUMBERG of Hamburg, Germany, as owner of S.S. Marie Leonhardt, Cross-Libellant, v. The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Cross-Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 30, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr., and Philip Price, of Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., proctors for libellant and cross-respondent.

Richard W. Palmer, and Henry C. Lucas, III, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel, of Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., proctors for claimant and cross-libellant.


CALEB M. WRIGHT, District Judge.

Libel in rem filed by the Pennsylvania Railroad against the S. S. Marie Leonhardt. Answer and cross-libel in personam filed against the Railroad by Leonhardt & Blumberg, claimant and owner of the vessel. Each party avers that the other was solely at fault in causing the vessel to collide with the Delair drawbridge on the Delaware River, which is operated and maintained...

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