Hastorf v. Hudson River Stone Supply Co.

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was filed to recover a certain balance of charter hire, and the damages sustained by the. libelant’s scow Alexandria on May 26, 1900, at Kddyville on Rondout creek, while the scow was under charter to the respondent, the Hudson River Stone Supply Company, and while lying at the bulkhead under some elevated bins for holding crushed stone, belonging to the Metropolitan Crushed Stone Company. The latter company has been brought into the action as defendant by petition under the fifty-ninth rule. The bins were 35 feet long and 30 or 40 feet deep and supported…