GRAY v. JOHANSSON

No. 18619.

287 F.2d 852 (1961)

Emmett GRAY, G & H Towing Company and Maritime Overseas Corporation, Appellants, v. Edwin E. JOHANSSON, Kansas City Bridge Company, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation, and Pelican Island Development Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Houston, Tex., Clarence S. Eastham, Alan S. Dale, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for Maritime Overseas Corp. appellant-appellee.

Royston, Rayzor & Cook, Galveston, Tex., Robert Eikel, Houston, Tex., for appellant, G & H Towing Co.

Robert Eikel, Houston, Tex., for appellant Emmett Gray.

Preston Shirley, Griffith D. Lambdin, Galveston, Tex., McLeod, Mills, Shirley & Alexander, Galveston, Tex., for appellees, Edwin E. Johansson, Kansas City Bridge Co., Merritt-Chapman Scott Corp., and Pelican Island Development Corp.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge, and CLAYTON, District Judge.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from findings and a judgment in admiralty in favor of the libellants, in a suit brought by them as owners of pipe lines, for damages resulting from their negligent destruction in the course of shifting the M/V Har Canaan as a dead ship to a slip in Galveston Harbor.

A great deal of testimony was taken on the issue of fault, and the district judge made full findings in effect that the destruction of the pipe lines was...

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