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PETITION OF J. E. BRENNEMAN COMPANY

No. 117 of 1957.

157 F.Supp. 295 (1957)

Petition of J. E. BRENNEMAN COMPANY for exoneration from or limitation of liability.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 19, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beechwood, Lovitt & Murphy, by Joseph J. Murphy, Rawle & Henderson, by Thomas F. Mount, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Abraham E. Freedman, of Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., for Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, and others, for defendant.

GANEY, District Judge.

The question posed by the claimants' exceptive allegations to a petition for exoneration from or limitation of liability is whether a certain document constituted written notice within the meaning of R.S. § 4285, as amended by § 3 of the Act of June 5, 1936, 49 Stat. 1480, 46 U.S.C.A. § 185.

On July 20, 1956, while the pile driver vessel "Hercules", owned and operated by the...

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