CHANON v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 70-C-131.

350 F.Supp. 1039 (1972)

Bernard CHANON, Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estates of William L. Carter and Marvin L. Hull v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division.

September 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Ravkind, Houston, Tex., for Chanon.

Alfred H. O. Boudreau, Jr., U. S. Dept. of Justice, B. Stephen Rice, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for United States.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

OWEN D. COX, District Judge.

This action is brought by Bernard Chanon, Administrator of the Estates of William L. Carter and of Marvin L. Hull, both of whom died when the F/V GULF WIND, a shrimping vessel, sank in the Gulf of Mexico in February, 1969. This Court has jurisdiction under Section 1346(b) of Title 28, U.S.C., and the alleged liability of the government is predicated on Section 2674 of the same title.

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