MATTER OF TA CHI NAVIGATION (PANAMA) CORP., S.A.

Civ. A. Nos. 75-2735, 76-2102, 76-2210, 77-1768, 77-2443 and 77-2246.

513 F.Supp. 148 (1981)

In the Matter of TA CHI NAVIGATION (PANAMA) CORPORATION, S.A., As Owner of the SS Eurybates, In a Cause of Exoneration From Or Limitation of Liability.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

March 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Deane and Robert B. Fisher, Jr., Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., for limitation plaintiff Ta Chi Navigation.

Allen van Emmerik, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Washington, D. C., for claimant U.S.A.


OPINION

DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

These consolidated cases arise out of a collision at sea on August 7, 1975, between the SS EURYBATES, a Panamanian registered freighter, owned by TA CHI Navigation (Panama) Corporation, S.A., and the USS DAHLGREN, a United States Navy destroyer. For the following reasons, in which we will refer to the two parties by the names of their respective vessels, the court finds that the collision was caused solely by the EURYBATES...

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