IN RE FARRELL LINES INCORPORATED

Civ. A. No. 3033.

378 F.Supp. 1354 (1974)

In the Matter of the Complaint of FARRELL LINES INCORPORATED, Owner of the STEAMSHIP AFRICAN NEPTUNE, for limitation of liability.

United States District Court, S. D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

On Petition for Limitation of Liability July 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian C. Sipple, Gustave R. Dubus, III (Chamlee, Dubus & Sipple), Savannah, Ga., Richard H. Brown, Jr. (Kirlin, Campbell & Keating), New York City, for Farrell Lines Inc.

David B. Kaplan, Boston, Mass., Leon A. Wilson, II and Benjamin Smith, Jr., Waycross, Ga., J. S. Hutto & Associates, Brunswick, Ga., Perry Brannen, Jr., Savannah, Ga., Richard E. Deane, Jacksonville, Fla., A. Blenn Taylor, Jr., Brunswick, Ga., Barnard M. Portman (Smith & Portman), Savannah, Ga., J. Richard Moore, Jacksonville, Fla., for claimants.


PRE-TRIAL ORDER ON MEASURE OF DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL DEATH IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF GEORGIA

LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.

On the evening of November 7, 1972, the S.S. "African Neptune" while proceeding down the Brunswick River eastward toward the Atlantic Ocean struck the Sidney Lanier Bridge in Glynn County, Georgia. Ten occupants of vehicles awaiting her passage through the draw span were killed when three sections were knocked from the piers into the river.

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