DOUGLAS PUBLIC SERVICE CORP. v. BARGE TRANSPORT CO.

No. 11560.

158 F.2d 89 (1946)

DOUGLAS PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION v. BARGE TRANSPORT CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 27, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Bell and Lamar Cecil, both of Beaumont, Tex., and L. A. Molony, of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

M. S. McCorquodale, of Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

A cluster of piling adjacent to appellant's wharf on the edge of the Mississippi River at New Orleans was on August 29 or 30, 1942, broken off under the ground by being pushed upstream. On October 23, 1943, appellant filed complaint against appellee and two other Companies, each of which had barges and tugs tied up to the cluster or to each other downstream from the cluster, at or about the time of the injury to the cluster, to recover damages for such...

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