BOUCHARD TRANSP. CO. v. MORAN TOWING & TRANSP. CO.

No. 74 Civ. 325.

428 F.Supp. 153 (1977)

BOUCHARD TRANSPORTATION CO., INC., as Operators and B NO. 95 Corporation, as owner of the BARGE B NO. 95, Plaintiffs, v. MORAN TOWING & TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. and the TUG JUDY MORAN, her engines, tackle, etc., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, and United States of America, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 9, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham Underwood & Lord, New York City, for Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc.; Kenneth H. Volk, Nicholas H. Cobbs, New York City, of counsel.

Robert D. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., Gilbert S. Fleischer, New York City, Atty. in Charge, Admiralty & Shipping Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, New York City, for United States; Janis G. Schulmeisters, Trial Atty., New York City.


OPINION

BONSAL, District Judge.

This is an admiralty action tried to the Court arising out of the grounding of an oil barge ("Barge B No. 95") which was being push towed by the tug JUDY MORAN north up the Hudson River on the evening of October 17-18, 1973. The defendants and third-party plaintiffs, Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. and the tug JUDY MORAN (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Moran"), settled with the plaintiffs in damages and...

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