IDEAL CEMENT CO. v. HOME INS. CO.

Nos. 2439, 2445.

112 F.Supp. 413 (1953)

IDEAL CEMENT CO. v. HOME INS. CO. THE VIRGINIA A et al. IDEAL CEMENT CO. v. McDONALD.

United States District Court S. D. Alabama, S. D.

May 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vickers & Thornton, J. Edward Thornton, Mobile, Ala., proctors for libelant.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Brunswick G. Deutsch, New Orleans, La., and Inge, Twitty, Armbrecht & Jackson, T. K. Jackson, Jr., Mobile, Ala., proctors for respondent Home Ins. Co.

Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood & Roberts, Palmer Pillans, Mobile, Ala., proctors for Sam A. McDonald and claimant of the tug, Virginia A.


THOMAS, District Judge.

Libelant brought a libel in personam (No. 2439) against the hull underwriters of its Barge 105 to recover for the loss sustained in the sinking, raising and repairing of the vessel. Under the 56th Admiralty Rule of the Supreme Court of the United States, 28 U.S.C.A., the underwriters impleaded the Tug Virginia A which had towed the barge, and her owner, Sam A. McDonald. Libelant also filed...

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