ALEXANDER v. INGRAM BARGE CO.

No. 16-4264.

876 F.3d 269 (2017)

Larry ALEXANDER, et al., Claimants-Appellants, v. INGRAM BARGE COMPANY, Petitioner-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth John Brennan , Attorney, Ken-Brennan Law, PC, Edwardsville, IL, for Appellants.

Don K. Haycraft , Attorney, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, Richard D. McNelley , Attorney, Simon Tonkin , Attorney, Tonkin & Mondl, St. Louis, MO, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Bauer and Sykes, Circuit Judges.


At 5:33 in the evening on April 18, 2013, a 14-barge tow pushed by the M/V Dale A. Heller was sucked into a powerful cross-current and broke up. Some of the barges crashed (or allided, as mariners would say) into the Marseilles Dam; some sank; some were saved. The accident happened during record-breaking rains and high...

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