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TODD ATLANTIC SHIPYARDS CORP. v. THE SOUTHPORT

Nos. 1047, 1048.

95 F.Supp. 331 (1951)

TODD ATLANTIC SHIPYARDS CORP. v. THE SOUTHPORT et al. UNITED STATES v. THE SOUTHPORT et al.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

January 26, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hagood, Rivers & Young, Charleston, S. C., George L. Varian (of Crowell & Rouse), New York City, for Todd Atlantic Shipyards Corp.

Moore & Mouzon, Charleston, S. C., for the S. S. Southport.

Ben Scott Whaley, U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C., William T. Foley, Jr., Atty., Admiralty and Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Buist & Buist, Charleston, S. C., for City Compress & Warehouse Co.

WARING, Chief Judge.

On January 15, 1949, the S. S. Southport, being then and there berthed alongside the wharf of the City Compress and Warehouse Company in the Cooper River in the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, broke from her moorings, drifted down the river and came into collision with a floating dry dock which was moored at the shipyard plant operated by Todd Atlantic Shipyards Corporation. The floating dry dock. known as "YFD-15" is a wooden five-sectioned...

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