CRESCENT TOWING & SALVAGE CO. v. DIXILYN DRILLING CORP.

No. 19148.

303 F.2d 237 (1962)

CRESCENT TOWING & SALVAGE COMPANY, Appellant, v. DIXILYN DRILLING CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. H. Quin, Vicksburg, Miss., Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr., New Orleans, La., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Vicksburg, Miss., of counsel, for appellant.

E. D. Vickery, Houston, Tex., Royston, Rayzor & Cook, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for appellee.

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


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant (Crescent) and the appellee (Dixilyn) were respondents to a libel filed by the Mississippi State Highway Commission, the City of Natchez, and the Highway Department of the State of Louisiana for $41,363.24 damages sustained by the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge when Dixilyn's Julie Ann, an off-shore drilling barge, collided with the underside of the bridge. The Julie Ann was being towed down the Mississippi River by Crescent pursuant to...

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