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RYAN WALSH STEVEDORING CO. v. JAMES MARINE SERVICES

No. 84-3793.

792 F.2d 489 (1986)

RYAN WALSH STEVEDORING CO., INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JAMES MARINE SERVICES, INC., Defendant-Appellant, v. U.S. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. In the matter of the Complaint of JAMES MARINE SERVICE, INC., Owner of the M/V HIAWATHA, for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RYAN WALSH STEVEDORING COMPANY, and U.S. Fire Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO., Plaintiff, v. RYAN WALSH STEVEDORING, and U.S. Fire Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees, v. JAMES MARINE SERVICE, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Hanemann, Jr., Franklin C. Shaw, New Orleans, La., for James Marine Services, Inc.

A. Gordon Grant, New Orleans, La., for U.S. Fire.

Francis Emmitt and Randolph J. Waits, New Orleans, La., for Ryan Walsh.

A. Danner Frazer, Jr., Mobile, Ala., Elizabeth Haecker Ryan, New Orleans, La., and M. Kathleen Miller, Mobile, Ala., for Ryan Walsh-Barge Frank L Only.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

James Marine Service, Inc., challenges the amount of the award in an admiralty allision case. We affirm.

I.

The derrick barge FRANK L, owned by Ryan Walsh Stevedoring Co., Inc., (Ryan Walsh), was in tow of the M/V HIAWATHA, owned by James Marine, when it collided with the Huey P. Long bridge spanning the Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 2, 1980. The D/B FRANK L consisted of a derrick mounted...

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