SLADE, INC. v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BARGE LINE COMPANY

No. 18647.

296 F.2d 188 (1961)

SLADE, INC., Successor to Higman Towing Company, Appellant, v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BARGE LINE COMPANY and Dixie Carriers, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Duncan, Wells, Duncan & Beard, Beaumont, Tex., for appellant.

George W. Brown, Jr., Beaumont, Tex., Thomas A. Brown, Jr., Houston, Tex., Geo. B. Matthews, New Orleans, La., John L. Fulbright, Beaumont, Tex., for appellees. Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., Brown & Fulbright, Beaumont, Tex., of counsel.

Before CAMERON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Slade, Inc.1 appeals from an interlocutory decree by the court below holding the Tug Moir and Slade, Inc., its owner, solely at fault for a collision occurring between the tow of the Tug Moir and the tow of the Tug George Peterkin. The action was commenced by appellee Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company, which filed a libel in rem and in personam<...

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