F. Jacobus Transp. Co. v. Goodwin-Gallagher Sand & Gravel Corp.

GODDARD, District Judge.

This libel was filed by the F. Jacobus Transportation Company, Inc., as owner of the scow Marion J., against the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand & Gravel Corporation, as owners of the tugs, having in tow the Marion J. and other sand scows, for damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of a collision between the Marion J. and a coal barge in tow of the tug William G. Howard and the William G. Howard has been impleaded as a respondent under the Admiralty Rule 56.

The collision took place in Long Island Sound in the vicinity of Company buoy light off Hewlitt’s Point at the…