BOARD OF COM'RS v. TURNER MARINE BULK

No. 93-CA-0310.

629 So.2d 1278 (1993)

The BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF The PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, v. TURNER MARINE BULK, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Butler, Richard G. Passler, Peter J. Butler, Jr., Locke Purnell Rain Harrell, New Orleans, for appellee.

J. Michael Orlesh, Jr., Gerald O. Gussoni, Jr., and Mack E. Barham, Robert E. Arceneaux, Gail N. Wise, Barham & Arceneaux, and Jerald L. Album, Suzanne Ganucheau, Abbott & Meeks, New Orleans, for appellant.

Before BYRNES, WARD and PLOTKIN, JJ.


BYRNES, Judge.

On April 5, 1991, the defendant-appellant, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (the "Dock Board") entered into a written lease (the "Lease") with plaintiff-appellee Turner Marine Bulk, Inc. ("Turner") for the occupancy and operation of the New Orleans Bulk Terminal. On February 17, 1992, a piece of heavy equipment integral to the operation of the bulk terminal, a shiploader, was blown into the Mississippi River during a storm and severely...

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