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COMPANIA DE MADERAS, ETC. v. THE QUEENSTON HEIGHTS

No. 15308.

220 F.2d 120 (1955)

COMPANIA DE MADERAS DE CAIBARIEN, S. A., Appellant, v. THE QUEENSTON HEIGHTS, etc., Esso Shipping Company, Claimant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis Emmett, René H. Himel, Jr., Eberhard P. Deutsch, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Walter Carroll, Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, New Orleans, La., for appellee. Benjamin W. Yancey, Walter Carroll, Jr., New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, HOLMES, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS, District Judge.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in admiralty for damages resulting from the collision of two vessels in the Mississippi River. On November 21, 1952, the tanker Queenston Heights, while ascending the river below New Orleans, struck and sank the motor vessel Star of Honduras. Action was brought by the owner of the Star against the Queenston, wherein the court below entered an interlocutory decree dividing the damages equally between the two vessels. D.C.,

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