COMPLAINT OF FARRELL LINES INCORPORATED

Civ. A. No. 3033.

389 F.Supp. 194 (1975)

Complaint of FARRELL LINES INCORPORATED, Owner of the STEAMSHIP AFRICAN NEPTUNE, for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability. Claim of Mrs. Betty JOHNS, Individually, and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kelly Johns, for Personal Injuries, Damages and for the Wrongful Death of her husband and two infant sons.

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

January 7, 1975.


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.

Leon A. Wilson, II, Benjamin Smith, Jr., Waycross, Ga., for claimants.


LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.

I

Background of the Claim

Shortly before eight o'clock on the night of November 7, 1972, a Chevrolet occupied by six persons was crossing the Sidney Lanier Bridge. It spans the Brunswick River below Brunswick, Georgia. The car was driven by Kelly Johns, aged twenty-three. His wife Betty was seated next to him. In her lap was their two year-old son, Arthur Lewis. In the rear were seated Doris Ann Smith, aged sixteen...

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