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THE BUTTERCUP

No. 16517.

8 F.2d 281 (1925)

THE BUTTERCUP. THE INDEPENDENT. NATIONAL OIL TRANSPORT CO. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court. E. D. Louisiana.

October 28, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugie V. Parham, of New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Edouard F. Henriques, of New Orleans, La., for the United States.

Philip S. Gidiere, of Spencer, and Gidiere, Phelps & Dunbar, of New Orleans, La., for respondent Bisso Towboat Co.

BURNS, District Judge.

Libelant claims damages resulting from alleged negligent towage of its oil barge W. A. Ebsen, which was grounded in the Mississippi river some 39 miles below New Orleans. The amount sued for is the alleged cost of floating the barge and repairing certain damages resulting from the grounding. The libel is in rem against the harbor tug Independent, and in personam against the United States upon in rem principles as owner of the seagoing tug Buttercup...

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