JAMES McWILLIAMS BLUE LINE v. THE PROSPECT II

No. A-17123.

60 F.Supp. 257 (1945)

JAMES McWILLIAMS BLUE LINE, Inc., v. THE PROSPECT II THE BLUE JACKET. THE PROSPECT II

District Court, E. D. New York.

April 30, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mahar & Mason, of New York City (Frank C. Mason, of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Purdy & Lamb, of New York City (Edmund F. Lamb, of New York City, of counsel), for claimant.


BYERS, District Judge.

There was a collision on January 10, 1944, in the Arthur Kill, about a half mile south of Tremley Point on the New Jersey side. The libelant's wooden barge Blue Jacket, being loaded and the hawser vessel in a two-barge tow to the libelant's tug Republic No. 5 that was proceeding up the Kill, favoring the Staten Island side, and when about abreast of the mouth of the Rahway River, was struck by the steel barge Cape Clarence, which was light and...

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