BLASKE v. DICK

No. 7708.

126 F.2d 96 (1942)

BLASKE v. DICK.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. S. Eastham and E. A. Kelly, both of Houston, Tex., Robert A. Stephens, Jr., of Springfield, Ill., and A. D. Dyess, of Houston, Tex., for appellant.

J. F. Schlafly, Jr., and Emerson Baetz, both of Alton, Ill. (Verlie, Eastman & Schlafly, of Alton, Ill., of counsel), for appellee.

Before MAJOR and MINTON, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in admiralty from an interlocutory decree, entered March 18, 1941, adjudging the rights and liabilities of the parties.

For reasons which will subsequently appear, there is no occasion for other than a brief statement of the facts. The case grows out of the destruction by fire of the steam towboat "Floyd H. Blaske" on the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, on October 26, 1940. H. C. Blaske, the owner, filed a libel...

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