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TRINIDAD CORPORATION v. INDIAN TOWING COMPANY

No. 18598.

293 F.2d 107 (1961)

TRINIDAD CORPORATION, Claimant of THE Tankship LYONS CREEK, Appellant, v. INDIAN TOWING COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 3, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred M. Farrell, Jr., Jos. M. Rault, Benjamin W. Yancey, New Orleans, La., Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Martinez & Yancey, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellant.

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

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an interlocutory decree in favor of libelant below, Indian Towing Company, Inc., for damages sustained in the capsizing of its tow boat Comanche when she struck a pier of the Huey P. Long Bridge on the Mississippi River on the night of March 4, 1956. The lower court found that the occurrence was due solely to the negligence of the Lyons Creek, owned by the Trinidad Corporation.

Briefly, the facts as found by the...

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