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Torts keyed to Robertson
T.J. Hooper
Citation:
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1932. 60 F.2d. 737.
ProfessorMelissa A. Hale
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Facts
Plaintiffs owned cargo that were being carried on the Defendant’s two barges. The barges were towed by two tugboats belonging to the Third-Party Defendant who was contracted by the Defendant. The barges and their cargo were lost off the coast of New Jersey in a severe storm. Neither of the tugboats were equipped with radios that would had provided them with warnings of and changes in weather conditions. They did not seek shelter en route as their private radio receiving sets, which were on board, were not working. These private radio receiving sets were not furnished or supervised by the owner of the tugboat. It was not a general custom among coastwise carriers to equip their tugs with radio receiving sets. One carrier line did it while the other lines relied upon their crews.
An adequate radio receiver set suitable for a coastwise tug was available at a small cost and was reasonably reliable if maintained and offered great protection to the tugboats. With these sets, tugboat crews within two or three hundred miles would receive weather predictions twice a day. Receivers such as these would offer protection especially to coal carrying barges such as the ones at issue in this case as they have little power to maneuver themselves to avoid weather quickly.
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