DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. SCHWABE

No. 4016.

79 So.2d 752 (1955)

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. O. J. SCHWABE and THE ALICE H.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 22, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard L. Knobloch, Thibodaux, for appellant.

W. Crosby Peguez, Jr., Jos A. Loret, D. Ross Bannister, Philip K. Jones, Baton Rouge, for Dept. of Highways.


ELLIS, Judge.

The Department of Highways brought this suit against O. J. Schwabe, owner and operator of the tugboat Alice H, in personam, and against the tugboat, in rem, for damages to a piling cluster forming a portion of the protection works for the Leeville bridge crossing Bayou Lafourche, which bridge is maintained by the Department and is part of a State highway. It is alleged that on June 14, 1952 while the tugboat...

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