CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY R. CO. v. THE W. C. HARMS

No. 1081.

134 F.Supp. 636 (1954)

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY, Libellant, v. THE W. C. HARMS and H. W. A. Harms, dba Harms Towing Company, Respondents.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

May 17, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski (Sweeney J. Doehring), Houston, Tex., for libellant.

Eastham, Hinds & Dale (Dan H. Hinds), Houston, Tex., for respondents.


KENNERLY, Chief Judge.

A collision between a fast passenger train and a river barge is unusual, but not impossible, as this Record discloses. This suit is by libellant, a Railroad Company, against a tug and barge, and their owner and operator, for damages alleged to have been caused Railroad Company by such a collision.

Libellant, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, is a railroad corporation, maintaining railroad lines or tracks between St....

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