United States Lighterage Corp. v. Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corp.

ABRUZZO, District Judge.

This is a hearing on exceptions of National Operating Company, Incorporated, to the petition of the respondent and for an order sustaining said exceptions and dismissing the petition impleading the National Operating Company, Incorporated.

The libellant, as bailee in possession of the deck scow “Jane Anne”, filed a libel against the Petterson Lighterage and Towing Corporation. This libel alleges a verbal charter made on September 26, 1941, between the libellant and respondent on the usual terms of the ordinary harbor charter prevailing in New York Harbor, the libellant…