Hockley v. Eastern Transp. Co.

CHESNUT, District Judge.

This case now stands for disposition on the merits after hearing testimony and arguments of counsel. The general nature of the case was outlined in a former opinion ([D. C.] 9 F. Supp. 411) covering a point arising on the pleadings, relating to what vessels must be surrendered by the respondent as a condition of exercising the claimed right of limitation of liability, for the loss of a cargo of acid phosphate when the respondent’s chartered barge, the “Calvin” sank in the Patuxent River on January 29, 1934, while on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, to Norfolk,…