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JEFFERSON BARRACKS MARINE SERVICE v. CASEY

No. 85-1068.

763 F.2d 1007 (1985)

JEFFERSON BARRACKS MARINE SERVICE, INC., charterer and owner pro hac vice of the M/V Walter E. Blessey, and Richard Wilson and Walter E. Blessey, owners of the M/V Walter E. Blessey, in an action for exoneration from and/or limitation of liability, Appellees, v. Thomas J. CASEY, the Personal Representative of the Estate of Richard D. Saal, Jean L. Saal, the alleged common law and de facto wife of Richard D. Saal, Jean L. Saal, the Guardian of Richard F. Saal — the minor child of Richard D. Saal, and Patricia Groller, Doris Buchert and Rhonda Jo Saal, the adult children of Richard D. Saal, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara W. Wallace, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

Raymond Massey, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge, and WOODS, District Judge.

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

On October 2, 1983 the M/V WALTER E. BLESSEY, a towboat handling fifteen barges on the upper Mississippi River struck a pleasure craft with four aboard, including appellants' decedent, Richard D. Saal. Saal and one other passenger, Harold Byington, Jr., were drowned. Byington's father filed suit for wrongful death in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois. Jean L. Saal, in her individual capacity as widow...

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