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DIESEL TANKER F. A. VERDON, INC. v. STAKEBOAT NO. 2

No. 220, Docket 28549.

340 F.2d 465 (1965)

DIESEL TANKER F. A. VERDON, INC., as owner of the tank vessel F. A. Verdon, Libellant-Appellant, v. STAKEBOAT NO. 2 and Bronx Towing Line, Inc., Claimant-Respondent-Appellee. BRONX TOWING LINE, INC., as owner of the Stakeboat No. 2, Libellant-Appellee, v. TANK VESSEL F. A. VERDON and Diesel Tanker F. A. Verdon, Inc., Claimant-Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 19, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Buckley, New York City (Christopher E. Heckman, Foley & Martin, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Herbert B. Halberg, New York City (Maurice A. Krisel and Krisel & Beck, New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Before FRIENDLY and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

BLUMENFELD, District Judge:

These two appeals briefed and argued together present a problem of applying the same principles of admiralty law to opposing sides of the same controversy. The owners of two ships each brought a libel against the other and the two actions were consolidated for trial below. The owners of the tanker F. A. Verdon and the Stakeboat No. 2 each contended that the other's vessel was solely responsible for a collision which occurred in Red Hook...

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