Gulf Oil Corp. v. Palmer

KENNEDY, District Judge.

This libel, promoted by the owners of the barge Susquehanna (Gulf Oil Corporation) is in personam against Howard S. Palmer, James Lee Loomis and Henry B. Sawyer, as trustees of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, the owners of the tug Transfer No. 12. Respond-dents impleaded in rem the steamtug James P. McAllister. The cause is one of collision.

The collision which gave rise to the litigation took place on the morning of December 17, 1945, at 5 :10, somewhere in the vicinity of buoy No. 26, a starboard hand (red) channel buoy on the westerly limit of…