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NEW ORLEANS COAL & BISSO TOWBOAT CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8055.

86 F.2d 53 (1936)

NEW ORLEANS COAL & BISSO TOWBOAT CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 27, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Esmond Phelps, W. B. Spencer, W. B. Spencer, Jr., and Selim B. Lemle, all of New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Lucian Y. Ray, Sp. Atty. in Admiralty, William I. Connelly, Senior Examiner, Ins. Division, U. S. Shipping Board, Edouard F. Henriques, M. A. Grace, Edwin H. Grace, Daniel H. Grace, and Milton C. Grace, all of New Orleans, La., for appellees.

Before FOSTER, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is a case of limitation of liability in admiralty, arising from the loss of a steel barge and her cargo of levee building machinery, on December 4, 1924, while being towed in the Mississippi river, by the tug Leo. A libel was filed by the owner of the machinery, Fluker Gravel Company, and the Leo was attached. Thereafter a petition was filed by the owner of the tug, New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Company, on January 5, 1925, denying...

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