Goodwin-Gallagher Sand & Gravel Corp. v. Washington Bulkley, Inc.

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

■ On stipulation the three above entitled suits were tried together, and, as the facts are the same in each suit, one opinion will suffice.

In the third above entitled suit Washington Bulkley, Ine., was impleaded under the fifty-sixth rule in admiralty on the petition of Goodwin-Gallagher Sand & Gravel Corporation.

On the 14th day of December, 1923, F.' Jacobus Transportation Company chartered the seow Margie A., with bargeman, to Goodwin-Gallagher Sand & Gravel Corporation under a certain charter agreement, confirmed by a writing dated December 14, 1923, at a certain…