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MASSMAN-DRAKE v. TOWBOAT M/V HUGH C. BLASKE

Civ. A. No. 66-39.

289 F.Supp. 700 (1968)

MASSMAN-DRAKE v. TOWBOAT M/V HUGH C. BLASKE, BARGE CHEM 2, and their owner, American Commercial Lines, Inc.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

September 18, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom F. Phillips, Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs.

J. Y. Gilmore, Jr., Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, New Orleans, La., for defendant, American Commercial Lines, Inc.

Wallace A. Hunter, Durrett, Hardin, Hunter, Dameron & Fritchie, Baton Rouge, La., for third-party defendant, Two Twenty-Eight Terminal Services, Inc.

WEST, Chief Judge:

This is another of the many suits growing out of Hurricane Betsy which struck Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with all her fury on the night of September 9, 1965. This claim involves damages to a cofferdam belonging to the plaintiff, Massman-Drake, and being used in connection with the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, allegedly caused when the towboat M/V HUGH C. BLASKE and her tow collided with the cofferdam during the...

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