C. J. DICK TOWING CO. v. THE LEO

No. 13987.

202 F.2d 850 (1953)

C. J. DICK TOWING CO. et al. v. THE LEO et al. COMMERCIAL PETROLEUM & TRANSPORT CO. et al. v. TEXAS CO. et al. THE DISPATCH.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Eikel, Royston & Rayzor, Houston, Tex., for Commercial Petroleum & Transport Co., and John R. Francis, trustee.

Carl G. Stearns, Houston, Tex., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman & Bates, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for C. J. Dick Towing Co.

Benjamin W. Yancey, New Orleans, La., Clarence S. Eastham, Houston, Tex., Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for Texas Co.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is in admiralty from a final decree holding appellant, C. J. Dick Towing Company, solely liable for damages resulting from a collision in the Bayou Boeuf section of the Gulf Intra-Coastal canal near Morgan City, Louisiana, between the tow of appellant's Tug Dispatch and the tow of the Tug Leo, owned by appellee, Commercial Petroleum and Transport Company.

On the morning of November 28, 1947, at about 7 a. m., the Tug Dispatch...

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