Century Indemnity Co. v. New York Tank Barge Co.

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

In this suit the libelant as assignee of Gulf .Refining Company seeks to recover from the respondent the sum of $3,500, alleged to be damages arising out of an agreement of charter.

On or about the 7th day of October, 1929, a libel was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, by Gulf Refining Company, assignor of the libelant herein, against the present respondent, New York Tank Barge Company, on contract, and the tug H. G. Tisdale, on tort, to recover damages alleged to have been *281caused by the respondents in that action, for…