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CHELETTE v. UNITED STATES

No. 826.

228 F.Supp. 653 (1964)

Oscar J. CHELETTE, Individually and as Next Friend of Oscar J. Chelette, Jr., Libelants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

April 23, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Hustmyre, Hustmyre & Harris, Orange, Tex., Joe Bob Golden, Joe H. Tonahill, Jasper, Tex., for libelants.

Harold G. Wilson, Atty., Admiralty and Shipping Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Bryan Blalock, Asst. U. S. Atty., Beaumont, Tex., for respondent.

FISHER, District Judge.

This is a suit filed by Libelants against the United States of America in an action under 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., for the recovery of damages for injuries sustained by Oscar J. Chelette, Jr., four (4) years of age, when he was knocked from a small motorboat which struck a log floating in the Sabine River in the vicinity of the Respondent's ships. This case being tried before the Court, without the intervention of a jury, on October...

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