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IN RE TUG MANAGEMENT CORPORATION

Admiralty No. 421 of 1965, Civ. A. No. 40755.

330 F.Supp. 486 (1971)

Petition of TUG MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, a Corporation, for Exoneration from, or Limitation of Liability, as Charterer of the TUG D. T. SHERIDAN. SHERIDAN TOWING CO., Inc., as Owner of the BARGE JAMES SHERIDAN v. STEAMSHIP HAROLD H. JACQUET, Her Engines, Boilers, Machinery, Etc., and All Persons Having Any Interest Therein and Lexington Transport Corporation.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harrison Kildare, Philadelphia, Pa. (with him on the brief, Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa.), for Sheridan Towing Co., Inc.

James Young, Philadelphia, Pa. (with him on the brief, Krusen, Evans & Byrne, Philadelphia, Pa.), for Lexington Transport Corp.

Robert G. Kelly, Sr., Philadelphia, Pa. (with him on the brief, William R. Deasey and R. Thomas McLaughlin, Philadelphia, Pa.), for Tug Management Corp.

FINDINGS OF FACT, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER

JOHN W. LORD, Jr., Chief Judge.

This litigation arises out of the collision between the SS HAROLD H. JACQUET and the BARGE JAMES SHERIDAN, which was being towed by the TUG D. T. SHERIDAN, on the evening of December 15, 1965.

After a ten day trial to the Court without a jury, briefs and replies were submitted by counsel, and the Court makes the...

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