HUNT FOODS AND INDUSTRIES, INC. v. MATSON NAVIGATION CO.

No. 5104.

249 F.Supp. 572 (1966)

HUNT FOODS AND INDUSTRIES, INC., Libelant, v. MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY and the S.S. HAWAIIAN TOURIST, Respondent.

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

January 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, John B. Gooch, Jr., New Orleans, for Hunt Foods and Industries, Inc.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, John Poitevent, New Orleans, for Matson Navigation Co. and the SS Hawaiian Tourist.

Lemle & Kelleher, Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., New Orleans, La., for T. Smith & Son, Inc.


AINSWORTH, District Judge:

Hunt Foods and Industries, Inc. has filed this libel against Matson Navigation Company and its vessel, the SS HAWAIIAN TOURIST, to recover damages to a large shipment of packages of cottonseed oil and related products on an ocean voyage from New Orleans to Honolulu. Matson has made T. Smith & Son, Inc., the stevedore company which loaded the cargo, a third-party respondent.

The HAWAIIAN TOURIST loaded the cargo in New Orleans...

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