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MATTER OF TALBOTT BIG FOOT, INC.

No. 87-3308.

854 F.2d 758 (1988)

In the Matter of TALBOTT BIG FOOT, INC. and Patterson Gulf Coast Drilling Co., as Owner/Manager of the Big Foot Two, Petitioning for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability. TALBOTT BIG FOOT, INC., Patterson Gulf Coast Drilling Co., Inc. and Patterson Gulf Coast Drilling Associates, Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard BOUDREAUX, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 14, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Leger, Jr., Franklin G. Shaw, Michael J. Mestayer, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

C. Scott LaBarre, T. Peter Breslin, Gauthier, Murphy, Sherman, McCabe & Chehardy, Metarie, La., for Barier and Wilson.

Lawrence N. Curtis, J. Minos Simon, Lafayette, La., for Boudreaux.

Before WISDOM, REAVLEY and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

The owners of a vessel, having petitioned the district court under the Limitation of Liability Act (see 46 U.S.C.App. § 185), appeal the district court's increase of the amount of security which they must post. Because we find insufficient factual development in the record upon which to make a proper determination, we remand the cause with instructions.

I. Facts and proceeding below

On December 31, 1986...

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