IN RE NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, ROAD DISTRICT NO. 4

A. B. No. 184.

174 F.Supp. 846 (1959)

In the Matter of the Petition of NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, ROAD DISTRICT NO. 4, Owner of the Oil Screw Nellie B, for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability in a Cause of Limitation of Liability. The NELLIE B.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division.

June 10, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. G. Schirmeyer, L. G. Kratochvil, Houston, Tex., for claimants.

Franklin Smith, County Attorney, Nueces County, Texas, Kleber, Mobley, Lockett & Weil, Corpus Christi, Texas, for petitioner, Nueces County, Texas, Road District No. 4.


ALLRED, District Judge.

On April 20, 1956, Samuel J. Thomas drove his Chrysler Sedan on board the Nellie B, a ferryboat owned and operated by Nueces County Road District No. 4 (hereafter called Road District). Thomas was accompanied by his wife, Inez, and by his brother, Leo, and Leo's wife, Lena May Thomas. The Thomases had gone aboard the ferry as fare paying passengers to be conveyed across navigable waters from a landing slip at

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