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PURE OIL CO. v. GEOTECHNICAL CORP. OF DELAWARE

No. 1442.

94 F.Supp. 866 (1951)

PURE OIL CO. v. GEOTECHNICAL CORP. OF DELAWARE.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

January 5, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for libelant.

John May, Kelleher, Hurley & Kohlmeyer, M. C. Scharff and E. E. Talbot, New Orleans, La., for respondent.

John D., M. A. & Edwin H. Grace, New Orleans, La., for intervening libelants.

WRIGHT, District Judge.

An explosion aboard the M. V. Leo Huff destroyed the vessel and killed three persons on board. The cause of the explosion and the responsibility therefor are sought to be established by this litigation.

The Leo Huff, a former United States Navy Mine Sweeper of wooden construction, had been converted by her owner, the libelant Pure Oil Company, into a shooting vessel to be used in geophysical work in the Gulf of Mexico by the respondent...

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