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NUNLEY v. M/V DAUNTLESS COLOCOTRONIS

Civ. A. No. 77-3886.

513 F.Supp. 720 (1981)

Walter Douglas NUNLEY, Plaintiff, v. M/V DAUNTLESS COLOCOTRONIS, her engines, tackle, apparel, etc., and 364,321 Barrels of Arabian Light Crude Oil in rem, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

April 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred M. Farrell, Jr., Hugh R. Straub, Terriberry, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, New Orleans, La., for Sea Unity Shipping, S.A.

Charles Hanemann, Henderson, Hanemann & Morris, Houma, La., for Tenneco Oil Co.

Debra J. Kossow, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Fred E. Salley, New Orleans, La., for Combi Lines.

Alex F. Lankford, III, G. Hamp Uzzelle, III, Mobile, Ala., for Dravo Mechling.

Machale A. Miller, New Orleans, La., for Point Landing, Inc.

J. Walter Ward, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Zito Fleeting, Inc. & Zito Towing, Inc.

Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, W. E. Noel, New Orleans, La., for Walter Douglas Nunley.

McGlinchey, Stafford & Mintz, John E. Galloway, New Orleans, La., for Tenneco Oil Co.

CASSIBRY, District Judge:

MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS

This motion raises the intriguing question whether the negligent parties responsible for the sinking of a vessel can be made responsible for the damage resulting from subsequent collisions with the sunken wreck. In particular, it raises the question of the effect of the Wreck Act,1 a statute recently described in a Fifth Circuit opinion as "impossibly obscure",

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