Feeney Marine Corp. v. The Otco

FOLEY, District Judge.

Libellant in this admiralty suit in rem against the tug Oteo, owned by Oil Transfer Corporation, seeks collision damages as a result of a collision on the early morning of May 23, 1952. The collision involved a steel oil barge, Var-rick, which was in a push-tow forward of the tug Oteo, and the libellant’s wooden canal barge Whiteport. At the time of the collision the Whiteport was moored port side to the dock of American Agricultural Chemical Company on the east bank of the Oswego River, and the tug Oteo pushing the barge Varrick was proceeding southerly along said river…