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UNITED STATES v. BARGE CBC 603

No. AD 3418 Div. B.

233 F.Supp. 85 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America v. The BARGE CBC 603, etc., and Canal Barge Company of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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

August 25, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis R. Lucas, Kathleen Ruddell, L. Howard McCurdy, Asst. U. S. Attys., New Orleans, La., and Alan Raywid, U. S. Department of Justice, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Washington, D. C., for libellant.

George Denegre, Robert B. Acomb, Jr., Edmond C. Salassi, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for respondent.

FRANK B. ELLIS, District Judge.

During the night of September 25, 1956, respondent's unmanned vessel, the Barge CBC 603, broke its mooring line and drifted down the Chattahoochee River until it collided with an Army pontoon bridge which spanned the river at Bradley's Landing, Fort Benning, Georgia. The United States, as owner of the bridge, instituted an action for damages to the bridge, and in an amended libel, claimed...

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