UNITED STATES v. SLADE, INC.

No. B-76-410-CA.

447 F.Supp. 638 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America v. SLADE, INC. and Water Quality Insurance Syndicate, in personam, and the TANKER BARGE S-1511, Official Number 512033, in rem.

United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

February 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Shepherd, Trial Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

George E. Duncan, Wells, Peyton, Duncan, Beard, Greenberg & Hunt, Beaumont, Tex., for defendant.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

STEGER, District Judge.

This admiralty action was brought by the United States of America for the recovery of $13,044.04 in Government funds expended in cleaning up an oil spill from the Sabine River on or about October 29, 1973. The Government contends that the spill emanated from a ruptured cargo tank in defendant Slade, Inc.'s ("Slade," hereinafter) tanker barge S-1511 which arrived...

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