AIPLE TOWING CO., INC. v. MV TRI-W

Civ. A. No. 74-948.

396 F.Supp. 943 (1975)

AIPLE TOWING CO., INC. v. MV TRI-W in rem.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

May 13, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Johnson, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., Arthur Crais, Lawrence E. Abbott, James G. Burke, Jr., Burke & Ballard, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Charles E. Lugenbuhl, Robert C. Leininger, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendant.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, District Judge:

The sole issue remaining in this case is the determination of damages; the parties have stipulated liability to the extent of eighty per cent of the actual damages found.

Aiple, the plaintiff, was the bareboat charterer and owner pro hac vice of a hopper river barge. The barge, carrying a cargo of soybeans, was being towed to New Orleans by defendant's tug, when it sank as a result of negligence of the tug's personnel. The cargo...

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