RIVER TERMINALS CORP. v. SOUTHWESTERN SUGAR & M. CO.

No. 16699.

274 F.2d 36 (1960)

RIVER TERMINALS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. SOUTHWESTERN SUGAR AND MOLASSES COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Selim B. Lemle, New Orleans, La., Carl G. Stearns, Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., for River Terminals Corp., appellant.

Amos L. Ponder, Jr., P. M. Flanagan, New Orleans, La., George L. Varian, New York City, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, TUTTLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree holding appellant, River Terminals Corporation (hereafter, sometimes, for convenience, R.T.C.), liable to appellee, Southwestern Sugar and Molasses Company, Inc. (hereafter Southwestern) for damages to the barge Peter B and a cargo of molasses. This is the second appearance of the case here. Formerly we held, 5 Cir., 253 F.2d 922, that if there was fault on the part of R.T.C....

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