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HAMPTON ROADS CARRIERS, INC. v. ALLIED CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 9131.

329 F.2d 387 (1964)

HAMPTON ROADS CARRIERS, INC., Appellant, v. ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Arthur Jett, Jr., and R. Arthur Jett, Norfolk, Va. (Jett, Sykes & Berkley, Norfolk, Va., and Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla., on brief), for appellant.

Francis N. Crenshaw and R. M. Hughes, III, Norfolk, Va. (James H. Simonson, New York City, Baird, Crenshaw & Ware, Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., and Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and CRAVEN, District Judge.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Foundering of barge BA-1401 in Chesapeake Bay, with total loss of her lading of some 1400 tons of sodium sulphate (salt cake) was attributed by the District Judge to unseaworthiness. On this finding he decreed damages against her owner,1 appellant Hampton Roads Carriers, Inc. (Barge), in favor of appellee Allied Chemical Corporation, cargo owner and charterer of the barge (Cargo). Consistently, he dismissed...

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