In re the Complaint and Petition of LLOYD'S LEASING LTD., as Owner and Cammell 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
June 26, 1990.
Order and Amended Conclusions of Law October 3, 1990.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James Patrick Cooney, and John M. Elsley, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Constance M. Walker, Jerry W. Ashby, Wayne K. Anderson, Legal Dept., Conoco, Inc., Houston, Tex., for Conoco, Inc.
Charles R. Houssiere, Houssiere & Durant, Houston, Tex., for Earl Stark and White et al.
Ken Cross, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ben F. McDonald, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for State of Tex.
Scott Lyford, Office of County Atty., Galveston, Tex., for Galveston County, Tex. and Galveston County Beach Park Bd. of Trustees.
Dana Timaeus and George Jamail, Benckenstein, Oxford, Radford & Johnson, Beaumont, Tex., for Stephen O. Johnson, S. Johnson Marine, Jack Hemmenway and Jack's Shrimp House.
George W. Lederer, Jr., Houston, Tex., Paul W. Wommack, Ralph K. Harrison, The Woodlands, Tex., for Mitchell Devel. Corp. of the Southwest, Mitchell Realty Co., The Fort Crickett Hotel Ltd., and George P. Mitchell.
Ronald G. Woods, U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., and R. Scott Blaze, Trial Atty., Washington, D.C., for U.S.
Beck Smith, Smith & Stowers, Galveston, Tex., for David Richard, Theo Carroll White, Charles Richard and Billy Kesel.
Lester J. Lautenschlaeger, Jr., Lautenschlaeger & Oberhelman, New Orleans, La., and Kenneth Michael Wright, Lake Charles, La., for Malcolm Gillis and Lake Charles Pilots, Inc.
Mike Gallagher, Fisher, Gallagher, Perrin & Lewis, Houston, Tex., and E.A. Apffel, W. Daniel Vaughn and J.D. Bashline, Galveston, Tex., for several other claimants.
United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Galveston Division.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
HUGH GIBSON, District Judge.
Findings of Fact
I. Introduction
This is a complex limitation of liability proceeding arising from the massive structural failure that the M/T ALVENUS experienced in making her transit up the Calcasieu Channel, off the Louisiana coast. As a consequence of her structural failure, the M/T ALVENUS spilled approximately 66,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of...
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