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STATE OF LA. EX REL. GUSTE v. M/V TESTBANK

No. 82-3059.

752 F.2d 1019 (1985)

STATE OF LOUISIANA, ex rel. William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General, et al., Plaintiffs, Ventura Trading Company, Ltd., Inc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. M/V TESTBANK, her engines, tackle, apparel, her owners, etc., et al., Partenreederei M/S Charlotta, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gelpi, Sullivan, Carroll & LaBorde, Gerard T. Gelpi, Randall C. Coleman, III, New Orleans, La., Sidney D. Torres, III, Kenneth B. Krobert, Chalmette, La., for Ventura et al.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, James B. Kemp, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Farrell Lines, Inc.

Leger & Mestayer, Walter J. Leger, Jr., Courtenay, Forstall, Grace & Hebert, Thomas J. Grace, Theodore W. Brin, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Christovich & Kearney, James F. Holmes, New Orleans, La., for Container Lift.

Patrick L. Burke, J. Dwight LeBlanc, Jr., Kenneth J. Servay, New Orleans, La., for Partenreederei.

Walter Carroll, Jr., Jean Melancon, New Orleans, La., for Fortune Sea & London S.S.

Robert B. Deane, New Orleans, La., for Partenreederei and United Kingdom.

Benjamin W. Yancey, New Orleans, La., for Fortune Sea Transp.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, WISDOM, GEE, RUBIN, REAVLEY, POLITZ, RANDALL, TATE, JOHNSON, WILLIAMS, GARWOOD, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS and HILL, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to abandon physical damage to a proprietary interest as a prerequisite to recovery for economic loss in cases of unintentional maritime tort. We decline the invitation.1

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In the early evening of July 22, 1980, the M/V SEA DANIEL, an inbound bulk carrier, and the M/V TESTBANK, an outbound container ship, collided at approximately mile forty-one of the Mississippi River...

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