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AL JOHNSON CONSTRUCTION CO. v. S.S. RIO ORINOCO

No. 419 of 1960.

249 F.Supp. 182 (1965)

AL JOHNSON CONSTRUCTION CO. et al., Libellant, v. S.S. RIO ORINOCO and Trans-World Carriers, Inc., Claimant-Respondent. TRANS-WORLD CARRIERS, INC., Cross-Libellant, v. DREDGE ATLAS et al., Claimants-Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 20, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Krusen Evans & Byrne, James F. Young, Philadelphia, Pa., for libellants.

Rawle & Henderson, Richard W. Palmer, Philadelphia, Pa., for claimant-respondent and cross-libellant.

KRAFT, District Judge.

On June 23, 1960, at or about 5:30 P.M. (1730) the S. S. RIO-ORINOCO, moving upstream struck the dredge ATLAS while the latter, spudded down, was dredging a new channel in the upper Delaware River, known as the New Enterprise Channel. The dredge owners filed a libel against the RIO-ORINOCO in rem and her owner in personam. The vessel interests answered and filed a cross-libel against the dredge in rem and her owners in personam.

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