Willis v. Tugs Tramp & Mars

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

By an opinion filéd December 10, 1962, 216 F.Supp. 901, this court directed a division of damages between the pleasure yacht MARY FRANCES, owned by the libelant, Raymond Willis, and the tug TRAMP, owned by the respondent, Tidewater Construction Corporation. To this date no interlocutory decree has been presented for entry.

William G. Herring, Jr. was a passenger aboard the yacht MARY FRANCES, operated by the libelant, Willis, on October 8, 1960, when the yacht collided with one of respondent’s barges while the flotilla was anchored in Adams Creek, North Carolina.…