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READING COMPANY v. POPE & TALBOT, INC.

No. 471 of 1957.

192 F.Supp. 663 (1961)

READING COMPANY, a corporation, as Owner of Carfloat No. 23, Libellant and Cross-Respondent, v. POPE & TALBOT, INC., a corporation, as Owner Pro Hac Vice of Steamship THE WALTHAM VICTORY, Respondent and Cross-Libellant, v. MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORPORATION, Impleaded Respondent and Cross-Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 10, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rawle & Henderson, Harrison G. Kildare, Philadelphia, Pa., for Reading Co., libellant and cross-respondent.

Krusen, Evans & Shaw, Albert R. Beal, Philadelphia, Pa., and Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, Elmer C. Maddy, New York City, for Pope & Talbot, Inc., respondent and cross-libellant.

Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, James F. Young, Philadelphia, Pa., for Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp., impleaded respondent and cross-respondent.

KRAFT, District Judge.

The claims here involved arose from a collision on February 4, 1957, about 1:16 A.M. between the S. S. Waltham Victory and libellant's wrecked and beached carfloat off the southwest end of Petty Island, in the Delaware River, in the Port of Philadelphia.

On December 15, 1959, we ordered that the issues of liability be severed from the issues of damages, and that the liability issues be first tried. The action was so tried, and from the...

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