CALIFORNIA TRANSPORT CORPORATION v. THE ACCENTOR

No. 4012.

183 F.Supp. 817 (1960)

CALIFORNIA TRANSPORT CORPORATION, Libelant, v. THE Tug ACCENTOR, her engines, etc., in rem, and Clifford C. Northon, Jr., in personam, Claimant-Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

May 24, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, Charles D. Marshall, Charles W. Howard, Jr., New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, John Poitevent, Charles Dunbar, III, New Orleans, La., for claimant-respondent.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

The supertanker T.S. Gage Lund,1 steaming up the Mississippi River in the harbor of New Orleans into a cluster of tug and barge traffic leaving and entering the Industrial Canal,2 was in collision with the lead barge of one of the tows. In these proceedings the owner of the Gage Lund sues for her damages.

On August 29, 1958, the Gage Lund had been at anchor in quarantine...

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