Petition of Tugboat Dalzellea, Inc.

PALMIERI, District Judge.

The Community Bus Lines, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, moves for leave to file as a claimant nunc pro tunc in this limitation proceeding, as of the last date of filing claims, with the same force and effect as though it had filed prior to the last day for the filing of claims, namely, May 12, 1964. The claim arose out of the collision between the tank barge Siwanoy in tow of the tug Dalzellea and the Union Avenue Bridge in the Passaic River, New Jersey, on July 19, 1963. The closing of the bridge, resulting from the collision, compelled the rerouting of vehicular…