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KOMMANVITTSELSKAPET HARWI (ROLF WIGAND) v. UNITED STATES

No. 39 of 1964.

305 F.Supp. 882 (1969)

KOMMANVITTSELSKAPET HARWI (ROLF WIGAND) Owner of the MOTOR VESSEL, GERWI v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 8, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Palmer, and Raul Betancourt, Jr., Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., and Joseph R. Ritchie, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Thomas F. McGovern, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

FINDINGS OF FACT, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND ORDER

WOOD, District Judge.

The libellants brought suit under Section 2 of the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C. § 742 for damages incurred by the freighter GERWI when it grounded on a shoal in the Torresdale Range of the Delaware River while carrying iron ore to the Morrisville Plant of the United States Steel Company. Libellants contend that the United States Government negligently caused the grounding...

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