AMERICAN BARGE LINE COMPANY v. INDUSTRIAL MARINE SERVICE

No. 16948.

252 F.2d 108 (1958)

AMERICAN BARGE LINE COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. INDUSTRIAL MARINE SERVICE, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation and Pan-Am Southern Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Lugenbuhl, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., for appellant American Barge Line Co., Inc.

Thomas B. Wheeler, Wheeler, Stewart, Exnicios & Mestayer, New Orleans, La., for Industrial Marine Service.

J. Barbee Winston, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., for Pan-Am Southern Corp.

Charles E. Lugenbuhl, New Orleans, La., for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

On the night of December 13, 1952, in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, the Steamer Guadalcanal and its seventeen barge tow was in collision with the consolidated tow of the Motor Vessel Robert R. Gipson and the Motor Vessel James E. Graham, resulting in damage to three barges and their respective cargoes.

This appeal has been taken from three separate interlocutory decrees finding the Guadalcanal solely at fault in the collision...

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