MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, INC. v. S.S. PORTMAR


249 F.Supp. 464 (1966)

MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, INC., Libellant, v. S.S. PORTMAR, her engines, etc., and Calmar Steamship Corporation, Respondent. CALMAR STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, as owner and operator of the S.S. Portmar, Cross-Libellant, v. S.S. MORMACGUIDE, her engines, etc., and Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., as owner of the S.S. Mormacguide, Cross-Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham, Underwood, Barron, Wright & White, New York City, for Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., Eugene Underwood, and Kenneth Volk, New York City, of counsel.

Mendes & Mount, New York City, for Calmar Steamship Corp., Alfred A. Lohne, and Brendan J. Connolly, New York City, of counsel.


BONSAL, District Judge.

These consolidated libels in admiralty1 were brought as a result of the collision of the S.S. MORMACGUIDE and the S.S. PORTMAR, which occurred in the East River in the late evening of January 24, 1961. The starboard buff of the bow of the PORTMAR came into contact with the starboard side of the MORMACGUIDE about midships, causing damage to both vessels, which is the subject matter of the libels here involved. The...

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