PEED v. THE JESSIE J.

No. 4168.

191 F.Supp. 618 (1961)

Vivian Callaway PEED, Libelant, v. THE JESSIE J. and THE TEE MAE, their engines, tackle, apparel, furniture, etc., in rem, and F. & S. Boat Corp., O. E. Christy, and Wallace Carline, in personam, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

March 8, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, James B. Kemp, Jr., Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Faris, Leake & Emmett, J. Y. Gilmore, Jr., New Orleans, La., for respondents.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

On the early morning of October 29, 1958, the fishing vessel Vivian Lee, eastbound in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near New Orleans, cut across the bows of two westbound tugs, the Tee Mae and the Jessie J., striking both before ramming into the bank on her own left-hand side of the waterway. In these proceedings the owners of the Vivian Lee sue for her damages.

The Tee Mae was a steel push-type tug, 47 feet long and 17 feet...

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