TERRA RESOURCES, INC. v. LAKE CHARLES DREDGING & TOWING, INC.

Civ. A. No. 781533.

555 F.Supp. 406 (1981)

TERRA RESOURCES, INC. et al. v. LAKE CHARLES DREDGING & TOWING, INC. et al.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Lafayette-Opelousas Division.

March 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen T. Victory, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

J.L. Cox, Jr., Woodley, Barnett, Cox, Williams & Fenet, Lake Charles, La., for Lake Charles Dredging and Parker Bros.

John Blackwell, Gibbens & Blackwell, New Iberia, La., for Century Towing and Utah Home Fire Ins. Co.

David A. Hurlburt, Fontenot & Hurlburt, Lafayette, La., for Aetna Cas. and Aetna Life.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

W. EUGENE DAVIS, District Judge.

In January 1978 Lake Charles Dredging & Towing Co., Inc. (Lake Charles) was engaged in dredging operations in East Cote Blanche Bay. The dredging flotilla was composed of a dredge and two barges owned by Parker Brothers, Inc., and one barge owned by Lake Charles. On the morning of January 25, the crewmembers of Century Towing's vessel, THOMAS E. CLARY, tied the three barges to a mooring device selected...

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