Legal Opinion

The Teaser

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided August 10, 1917No. 2210PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Suits in admiralty "for collision by Elliott C. Gardner, master of the Schooner Addie M. Lawrence, against the tug Teaser and the barge Powel, the barge. Horace A. Allyn and tug Juno, impleaded, and by the Powel against all thp other vessels. Decree against the Powel and the Teaser, and the latter appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in an admiralty cause of collision. All craft proximately and remotely connected with the collision were brought into court by two libels, .one being filed by the schooner Lawrence against the tug Teaser and the barge Powel, the latter bringing in by petition the barge Allyn and the tug Juno; the other being filed by the barge Powel against the schooner Lawrence, the tug Juno, the barge Allyn and the tug Teaser.

For a cause in admiralty this case is unique, in that the facts as to the collision are not in dispute. Briefly stated, they are…

2Cases cited21 opinions

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