Legal Opinion
The Harry M. Wall
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 14, 1911No. 48PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by the English & American Shipping Company against the tugs Harry M. Wall and John E. Mehrer.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
This suit was brought'against the owners of the tug Harry M. Wall for negligent towage, and these owners impleaded the tug John E. Mehrer under rule 59. The facts are as follows:
The Murcia is a British steamship, built of steel, 303 feet long, 41% feet beam, of 2,644 tons gross register, and at the time of her injury was carrying a cargo of ore, and was drawing 21 feet aft and about 20% feet forward. She was to be discharged at Harrison’s wharf on the Schuylkill river, about three-eighths of a mile above the most northerly of the two bridges that span the…
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