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HESS SHIPPING CORPORATION v. SS CHARLES LYKES

No. 26703.

417 F.2d 346 (1969)

HESS SHIPPING CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The SS CHARLES LYKES, in rem, and Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Defendant-Appellant. LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO., Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HESS SHIPPING CORPORATION and the ST HESS VOYAGER, in rem, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Wood, Mobile, Ala., Benjamin Yancey, Edward S. Bagley, New Orleans, La., George F. Wood, Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood & Roberts, Mobile, Ala., Terriberry, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellant.

Theodore K. Jackson, Jr., Rae M. Crowe, Mobile, Ala., Armbrecht, Jackson & DeMouy, Mobile, Ala., of counsel, for appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, GODBOLD, Circuit Judge, and CABOT, District Judge.

CABOT, District Judge:

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree holding Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., the appellant, solely at fault for the collision between its ship, the SS Charles Lykes, and the ST Hess Voyager owned by the Hess Shipping Corp., the appellee. Each party had sued the other and its vessel. The actions were consolidated for a non-jury trial limited to the issue of liability. The appellant Lykes asserts...

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