CALIFORNIA COMPANY v. JUMONVILLE

No. 20342.

327 F.2d 988 (1964)

The CALIFORNIA COMPANY and Frank Stipelcovich, etc., Appellants, v. J. E. JUMONVILLE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied March 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George V. Baus, Adams & Reese, Edward S. Bagley, Benjamin W. Yancey, Andrew T. Martinez, New Orleans, La., Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, New Orleans, La., of counsel, Sam A. LeBlanc, III, for appellants.

George B. Matthews, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON and BELL, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, District Judge.


GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge.

The District Court, in an interlocutory decree, held appellants negligent, and liable for damages sustained by appellee when his dredge stranded on a sunken breakwater barge owned by The California Company, and located adjacent to its drilling rig, while the dredge was in the tow of the tug CHERIE owned by Stipelcovich.

The findings of fact and conclusions of law with regard to negligence...

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