District Court, E.D. New York January 25, 1954, No. A 18173 (Thurston v. American Stevedores, Inc.)

BYERS, District Judge.

Here the owner of the wooden barge Supreme seeks to recover damages claimed to have been sustained by it as the result of improper loading of not less than six hundred tons (according to respondent — the libelant says seven hundred tons plus) of wet sand and loam into the barge from the S.S. Robert Fulton at Pier 80 N.R., Manhattan.