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OHIO BARGE LINE, INC. v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY

No. 18230.

280 F.2d 448 (1960)

OHIO BARGE LINE, INC., Claimant, Appellant, v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 6, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. B. Matthews, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Ohio Barge Line, Inc., appellant.

Cornelius G. Van Dalen, New Orleans, La., for appellee, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Christopher Tompkins, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before HUTCHESON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Indigenous to the Mississippi-Ohio River system, the parties inject a note of romance into this otherwise run-of-the-mill collision case. The appellant, carrying the heavy burden of overturning fact findings and a decree of sole fault sets the stage by its opening line. "On a cool, clear night in April of 1956 the Steamer Lunga Point was bound down the Ohio River with a tow of seventeen (17) barges." With great earnestness, but with an...

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