CENAC TOWING COMPANY v. KEYSTONE SHIPPING COMPANY

No. 25497.

404 F.2d 698 (1968)

CENAC TOWING COMPANY, Inc. and Alfred Cenac Towing Company, Inc., Appellants, v. KEYSTONE SHIPPING COMPANY et al., Appellees. KEYSTONE SHIPPING COMPANY, Appellant, v. CENAC TOWING COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Matthews, Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Matthews, & Schumacher, New Orleans, La., for Cenac Towing Co., Inc. and Alfred Cenac Towing Co., Inc.

Benjamin W. Yancey, Alfred M. Farrell, Jr., Kaul J. M. Buhler, II, New Orleans, La., for appellees, Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before GOLDBERG and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, District Judge.


AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by each of three vessel owners from an interlocutory decree adjudging appellants and their respective vessels at fault and dividing damages into thirds.

On the night of April 9, 1963, the tanker PERRYVILLE, carrying a cargo of aviation gasoline, kerosene and heating oil, and proceeding seaward through the Southwest Pass in the Mississippi River, went aground on the west bank of the channel. The tanker remained stranded...

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