New Jersey Shipbuilding & DredgIng Co. v. Tracy Towing Line

INCH, District Judge,

libelant, the owner of a dredge and a dumper scow, sued the coal barges Mildred, Margaret, and Keane and the tug Tracy and the latter’s owner, the Tracy Towing Line, Inc., to recover damages arising from collisions between the scow and the barge Mildred, the dredge and the barges Keane and Margaret. No one seems to have appeared for the Mildred.

There was a previous suit and counter suit in the Southern District between owners of other vessels and the Mildred, Keane, and tug Tracy which brought out many of the same facts as in the present suit and resulted in a decree by…