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PATRICK v. THE FLORENCE

Nos. 259 of 1955, 495 of 1956.

167 F.Supp. 906 (1958)

Donald D. PATRICK, Owner of THE Barge WILMINGTON, v. THE Tug FLORENCE, her engines, boilers, etc., and her Owner, Florida Towing Corporation, and THE Barge OIL TRANSFER NO. 23 and her owner, Oil Transfer Corporation, Respondents, THE Tug PASSYUNK, and Quaker City Navigation Company, and Jean V. Patrick, Impleaded Respondents. CHESTER BLAST FURNACE, Inc., v. THE Tug FLORENCE, her engines, boilers, etc., and her Owner, Florida Towing Corporation, Donald D. Patrick, as Owner and Claimant of the Tug Passyunk, Jean V. Patrick and Quaker City Navigation Company, Impleaded Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

July 30, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beechwood, Lovitt & Murphy, by Miles Warner, Philadelphia, Pa., for Donald D. Patrick and impleaded respondents in both actions.

George Francis Blewett, Philadelphia, Pa., for Chester Blast Furnace, Inc.

LaBrum & Doak, by Daniel J. Ryan, Philadelphia, Pa., for respondents.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

These suits in admiralty, consolidated for trial, arise from a collision which occurred in the Delaware River on the New Jersey side of the channel in the Chester Range at about one o'clock on the morning of December 14, 1954.

The tug Passyunk, with the barge Wilmington made up on her starboard side, having discharged a cargo of coke at Chester, Pennsylvania, backed out of the slip on the Pennsylvania side of the river, straightened...

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