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COSTANZO TRANSP. CO. v. AMERICAN BARGE LINE CO.

No. 81.

35 F.Supp. 929 (1940)

COSTANZO TRANSP. CO. v. AMERICAN BARGE LINE CO., Inc.

District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

September 11, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zeno Fritz, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and George A. Blackford, of Wheeling, W. Va., for libelant.

Alter, Wright & Barron and James Milholland, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., Waite, Schindel & Bayless, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and L. C. Hinslea, of Cleveland, Ohio, for respondent.

GIBSON, District Judge.

Under the admitted facts the one duty of the court is to determine what amount is properly awardable to the Libelant as salvage. The steamboat "Chickie", under charter to the respondent, while towing seven loaded and four unloaded barges of the libelant down the Ohio River, had a number of those barges break away from it and proceed to drift down the river. Thereupon its master caused a signal of distress to be made, and the steamboat "Costanzo...

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