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CHOCTAW TRANSPORTATION CO. v. FORD CONSTRUCTION CO.

No. G-C-7-60.

193 F.Supp. 922 (1961)

CHOCTAW TRANSPORTATION COMPANY In its Own Behalf as Owner of THE Barge NO. 9, Libelant, v. FORD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY and K. W. K. Towing Company, Respondents.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

May 4, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Vicksburg, Miss., for libelants.

Dent, Ward, Martin & Terry, Vicksburg, Miss., George Denegre, New Orleans, La., Teller, Biedenharn & Rogers, Vicksburg, Miss., for respondents.

CLAYTON, District Judge.

This is a libel in admiralty brought by Choctaw Transportation Company against Ford Construction Company and K. W. K. Towing Company for the value of a barge which buckled and sank in the Mississippi River on November 20, 1957. Choctaw, the owner of the barge, bottoms its claim on negligence in the loading and towing of the barge and on the failure of the charterer, Ford Construction Company, to return the barge in a good, sound and seaworthy...

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