Legal Opinion
United States Lighterage Corp. v. Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corp.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided May 4, 1943No. 16411PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, District Judge.
National Operating Company, Incorporated, was, on the petition of the Respondent Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corporation, impleaded under the 56th Rule in Admiralty, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723.
On or about September 26, 1941, the libellant, by verbal charter, chartered to the respondent the scow “Jane Anne”, on the usual terms of the ordinary harbor charter prevailing in New York Harbor, the libellant to employ and pay a captain for said' scow. Under such a charter, the respondent was bound to return the scow to the libellant in the same condition as when…
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