Boyer v. Holland-American Line

EGAN, District Judge.

The libellants, Lewis F. Boyer, Jr., Thornton D. Hooper, Edward Burritt and Horace L. Pugh, owners of the barge Interstate No. 8, brought this suit by reason of a collision in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (hereinafter referred to as the C & D Canal) on June 10, 1954, between the barge Interstate No. 8 and the S.S. Blydendyk, owned by the Holland-American Line.1 Thereafter, by an Order of the Court allowed under Admiralty Rule 56, 28 U.S.C.A. p. 119, respondent, Holland-American Line, impleaded Lewis F. Boyer, Jr., Thornton D. Hooper, Edward Burritt and Horace L.…