BULTEMA DOCK & DREDGE CO. v. STEAMSHIP DAVID P. THOMPSON

Civ. A. No. 4466.

252 F.Supp. 881 (1966)

BULTEMA DOCK & DREDGE COMPANY, Libelant, v. STEAMSHIP DAVID P. THOMPSON, her engines, boilers, etc., and American Steamship Company, Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Michigan, S. D.

April 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hathaway, Latimer, Clink & Robb, Muskegon, Mich., H. Winston Hathaway, Muskegon, Mich., of counsel, for libelant.

Coffey, Heffernan & Harrison, Buffalo, N. Y., Warner, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids, Mich., Fenton F. Harrison, Buffalo, N. Y., Leonard D. Verdier, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich., of counsel, for respondent.


FOX, District Judge.

This is an action by libelant to recover for damages resulting when respondent steamship collided with an underwater construction project maintained by libelant at a power plant dock on Lake Macatawa, Holland, Michigan.

Jurisdiction is founded on 28 U.S.C. § 1333, and the action is brought pursuant to the Admiralty Jurisdiction Extension Act, being 48 U.S.C. § 740.

By contract dated January 17, 1962, libelant undertook...

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