In re Sheridan

PETERS, District Judge.

This case arises on petition of D. T. Sheridan and Sheridan Transportation, Inc., owner and operator, respectively, of the barge “Winifred Sheridan”, for exemption from or limitation of liability. Revised Statutes, Sections 4283-4287, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 183-187. The proceeding immediately followed the libelling of the barge in a suit instituted by members of the crew of the fishing schooner “Mary E. *780O’Hara”, who were injured in a collision between the schooner and the barge in Broad Sound, outside of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on the early morning of January 21, 1941.

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