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HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. v. GULF REFINING CO.

Nos. 15593-15598.

230 F.2d 346 (1956)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY v. GULF REFINING COMPANY and Villa LeBlanc. Villa LE BLANC v. BLACK WARRIOR TOWING COMPANY. BLACK WARRIOR TOWING COMPANY v. Villa LE BLANC. GULF REFINING COMPANY v. BLACK WARRIOR TOWING COMPANY. BLACK WARRIOR TOWING COMPANY v. GULF REFINING COMPANY. GULF REFINING COMPANY v. George L. CURRY. George L. CURRY v. GULF REFINING COMPANY and Villa LeBlanc. GULF REFINING COMPANY v. John THOMAS. John THOMAS v. GULF REFINING CO., and Villa LeBlanc. Martha Jane MORRISSETTE v. GULF REFINING COMPANY and Villa LeBlanc.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Selim B. Lemle, George B. Matthews, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., for Black Warrior Towing Company, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., Martha Jane Morrissette, George L. Curry and John Thomas.

Leon Sarpy, E. A. Carrere, Jr., New Orleans, La., Frederick E. Greer, Alex F. Smith, Otis J. Dillon, Shreveport, La., May & Carrere, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke & Hopkins, Henry H. Chaffe, New Orleans, La., Archie D. Gray, Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel, for Gulf Refining Co.

Fred J. Cassibry, New Orleans, La., for Villa LeBlanc.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

These libels, combined for trial below and for argument on appeal here, present common questions of fact and law arising out of a single incident, an explosion aboard barges of the Black Warrior Towing Company while they were discharging their cargo of gasoline at the Gulf Refining Company dock terminal near Gretna, Louisiana. The various parties raise issues concerning negligence, Section 3 of the Harter Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 192, Section...

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