Dilkes v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.

BYERS, District Judge.

This cause involves a collision in the Cape Cod Canal on October 18, 1934, at about 7:45 a. m., between the barge Cumru and the dredge Crest; that contact caused the barge Pottstown, towing alongside the first-named to starboard, to strik'e on the north bank of the canal. For damages so sustained by the barges, the libelant seeks to hold the dredge.

The latter has impleaded the tug Lenape which had the barges in tow. She was claimed by her captain as bailee, and the common ownership of the tug and barges is but thinly veiled; thus the languid part taken by libelant in the…