Dalzell v. United States Lines Co.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The decree below held the Jarka Corporation primarily liable and it appealed. The United States Lines Operations, Inc., was held to secondary liability and filed assignments of error. The suit grew out of the occurrences about to be stated.

While acting as one of five tugs assisting the S. S. Leviathan in undocking from Pier 86 North River early in the afternoon of November 25, 1930, the libel-ant’s tug Dalzelline came into collision with a corner of a.float stage and was so injured that she had to be beached. This suit was brought to recover the damages sustained. It…