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BD. OF COM'RS OF P. OF N. O. v. M/V FARMSUM

No. 75-3008.

574 F.2d 289 (1978)

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF the PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M/V FARMSUM, her engines, etc., in rem, and N. V. Stoomvaart Maatschaapij "Oostzee", in personam, Defendants-Appellees, v. TUG O. H. INGRAM, her engines, etc. in rem, and Ingram Barge Company, a division of Ingram Corporation, in personam, Third-Party Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nigel E. Rafferty, John Blackwell, New Orleans, La., for third-party defendants-appellants.

Ronald A. Johnson, New Orleans, La., for Bd. of Com'rs of Port of New Orleans.

M. D. Yager, New Orleans, La., for M/V FARMSUM, etc.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and JAMESON, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

On the night of July 20, 1973, at 10:50 p. m., M/V FARMSUM, on a course up the Mississippi River, collided with the Governor Nicholls Street Wharf in the Port of New Orleans and caused $35,000 in damages to the wharf. The owner of the wharf, the Board of Commissioners, brought suit in rem against M/V FARMSUM and in personam against the vessel's owner and operator, N. V. Stoomvaart-Maatschaapij "Oostzee."1...

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