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RAWLS BROTHERS CONTRACTORS, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 63-9-Adm.-J.

251 F.Supp. 47 (1966)

RAWLS BROTHERS CONTRACTORS, INC., Libelant, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Florida Towing Corporation, and the TUGS W. E. COPPEDGE and S. H. COPPEDGE and their engines, tackle, apparel, furniture and other appurtenances, Respondents.

United States District Court M. D. Florida, Jacksonville Division.

January 12, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bedell, Bedell, Dittmar & Smith, Jacksonville, Fla., for libelant.

Edward F. Boardman, U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., and Allen van Emmerick, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent United States.

Ulmer, Murchison, Kent, Ashby & Ball, Jacksonville, Fla., for respondents Florida Towing Corp. and claimant Wayland T. Coppedge & Son, Corp. and their surety Firemen's Fund Insurance Co.

SIMPSON, Chief Judge.

On August 6, 1962, at the shipyard leased and operated by libelant Rawls Brothers Contractors, Inc., in Jacksonville, Florida, the USS TRAVERSE COUNTY left her mooring under her own power, with assistance from the respondent tugs W. E. COPPEDGE and S. H. COPPEDGE and under the direction of tugmaster and docking-pilot Joseph N. Durst, an employee of claimant-respondent Florida Towing Corporation. In the course of the undocking operation the TRAVERSE...

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