DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY v. DIXIE CARRIERS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 69-H-214.

330 F.Supp. 1304 (1971)

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. DIXIE CARRIERS, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

August 26, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Eikel, Eikel & Davey, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

C. L. Solomon, Hinds & Meyer, Houston, Tex., for defendant.


BUE, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This is an admiralty collision action for damages resulting from three separate incidents, all of which occurred when a barge in the tow of the tug, DOW HUSTLER, collided with a railroad bridge's fender system at a point where the bridge crosses diagonally over a privately owned barge canal. The tug was owned and demise chartered by Dow Chemical Company (Dow) to Dixie Carriers, Inc. (Dixie), and it was then operated...

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