KOCH-ELLIS MARINE CONTRACTORS v. SEWERAGE & WATER BD.

No. 15029.

218 F.2d 771 (1955)

KOCH-ELLIS MARINE CONTRACTORS, Inc., Claimant of The JOE L. HILL and The KE 17 and KE 22, Appellant, v. SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS, and Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 28, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph V. Ferguson, II, New Orleans, La., Cobb & Wright, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

John H. Eisenhart, Jr., amicus curiæ.

Francis Emmett, Brunswick G. Deutsch, and Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for appellees.

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


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal in admiralty from an interlocutory decree, based on findings, Sewerage & Water Board v. The Joe L. Hill, D.C., 118 F.Supp. 951,1 that unattended, wild and heavily loaded river barges KE17 and KE22, owned by respondent-appellant, collided with and caused damage to a cluster piling and monorail, a part of its River Water Intake...

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