STOUFFLET v. CENAC TOWING COMPANY

Admiralty—No. 4682.

236 F.Supp. 198 (1964)

Ernest J. STOUFFLET, Jr. v. CENAC TOWING COMPANY, Inc.

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

November 25, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Henderson, A. Deutsche O'Neal, O'Neal & Waitz, Houma, La., for libelant.

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


Admiralty—No. 4682, Division "C".

WEST, District Judge.

This libel is brought by Ernest J. Stoufflet, Jr., owner of the barge ES-2, seeking recovery of the value of the barge which he claims was sunk and lost while chartered to respondent Cenac Towing Company, Inc. The libel is defended on the grounds that respondent, Cenac Towing Company, Inc., was not the charterer of the barge, but was acting only as a broker, and that therefore, it, respondent,...

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