McAllister Brothers, Inc. v. United States

OAKES, Chief Judge:

This appeal is by the losing plaintiffs in an action against the United States for $3.5 million in damages resulting from a grounding of their barge on Diamond Reef in the Hudson River, New York. Judge Charles H. Tenney of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the cause of the grounding was not due to any misrepresentation or omission in navigational publications, to the scale of the charts involved, or to the misloeation of the buoy marking the reef, but rather was due to the inexperience of the mate who was piloting the tug…