Lauchert v. American S. S. Co.

KNIGHT, District Judge.

This is a motion, under Rule 56 of Rules of Civil Procedure of the District Courts of the United States, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, made by defendant, Pittsburgh Steamship Company, to dismiss the second cause of action of plaintiff’s amended complaint.

In this cause of action plaintiff alleges that this defendant, a West Virginia corporation, was and is the owner and operator of the merchant steam vessel William J. Filbert, which, at time of accident, was moored adjacent to the codefendant’s steamer United States Gypsum in a harbor in Ecorse, Michigan; that, on…