In the Matter of the Complaint & Petition of LLOYD'S LEASING LTD., as Owner & Cammel Laird Shipbuilders, Ltd., and Alvenus Shipping Co., Ltd., As Charterers or Owners Pro Hac Vice, of the M/T ALVENUS, Her Engines, Tackle, etc., In a Cause of Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability.
United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Galveston Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 22, 1988.
January 22, 1988.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charles R. Houssiere, III, Houston, Tex., for White, et al.
Mike Gallagher, Fisher, Gallagher, Perrin & Lewis, Houston, Tex., for J.L. Sasser.
Susan Thiesen, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ben F. McDonald, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Atty. General's Office, Austin, Tex., for State of Tex.
H.S. Morgan, Jr., Theodore G. Dimitry, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Tex., for Conoco.
George W. Lederer, Jr., Paul W. Wommack, Ralph K. Harrison, The Woodlands, Tex., for Mitchell Development Corp. of the Southwest, Mitchell Realty Co., The Fort Crockett Hotel Ltd., and George P. Mitchell.
Charles Houssiere, Houssiere & Durant, Houston, Tex., for Earl Stark.
Steve Williams, for City of Galveston.
Ervin A. Apffel, Jr., McLeod, Alexander, Powel & Apffel, Galveston, Tex., for Mitchell Duncan, Ski Trek, Inc. and City of Galveston.
Gordon Speights Young, Jack Shepherd, Houston, Tex., R. Scott Blaze, Trial Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.A., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Colonel Eugene Witherspoon.
G. Byron Sims, Houston, Tex., for third party defendant Simrad, Inc.
Beck Smith, Smith & Stowers, Galveston, Tex., for David Richard, Theo Carroll White, Charles Richard and Billy Kesel.
Lester J. Lautenschlaeger, Jr., Lauten-schlaeger & Oberhelman, New Orleans, La., for third party defendant Malcolm Gillis and Lake Charles Pilots, Inc.
James Patrick Cooney, John M. Elsley, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Houston, Tex., for third party Silver Line, Ltd. and Silver Navigation, Ltd.
United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Galveston Division.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
HUGH GIBSON, District Judge.
The genesis of the current limitation of liability action before the Court is to be found in 1984 when the M/T ALVENUS, on a voyage from Venezuela to Lake Charles, Louisiana, sustained a crack in her hull while in the Calcasieu Pass Channel of the Gulf of Mexico. The epicenter of the resultant oil spill was approximately seventy miles distance from Galveston, Texas, and took several days to reach the coastal...
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