IN RE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES, INC.

No. 1628.

353 F.Supp. 872 (1973)

In the Matter of the Complaint of AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES, INC., as Owner of the MOTOR VESSEL JAMES L. HAMILTON, and Commercial Transport Corporation, as Owner of the MOTOR VESSEL La SALLE, and Inland Tugs Co. as Demise Charterer and Bailee in Possession of the MOTOR VESSEL JAMES L. HAMILTON and MOTOR VESSEL La SALLE for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability.

United States District Court, E. D. Kentucky, Covington Division.

January 3, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Wohlwender, Covington, Ky., Bloom & Greene Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati, Ohio, Ray, Robinson, Keenen & Hanninen, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM

SWINFORD, District Judge.

The record of this limitation of liability proceeding is before the court on the motion of defendant counter-claimant Roy Partin, administrator of the estates of certain of the decedents, to "enlarge the subject matter of the limitation vessels". For the purposes of deciding this motion the facts need not be summarized in detail. Suffice it to say that the tow (fifteen barges) of two towboats owned by the plaintiffs and...

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