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PETITION OF ESSO SHIPPING CO.

No. 1058.

122 F.Supp. 133 (1954)

Petition of ESSO SHIPPING CO. THE ESSO SUEZ. THE ESSO GREENSBORO.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

March 19, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd (Denman Moody and W. C. Harvin), Houston, Tex., and Kirlin, Campbell & Keating (Raymond T. Greene and Ira A Campbell), New York City for Esso Shipping Co.

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski (Carl G. Stearns and Sweeney J. Doehring), Houston, Tex., for National Bulk Carriers.

Mandell & Wright (Arthur J. Mandell), Houston, Tex., for claimants Dockrill and others.

Herman E. Cooper, Herbert J. DeVarco, and Richard Gyory, New York City, and Elias Gatoura, Houston, Tex., for claimants Williams and others.

Charles Murphy, Houston, Tex., for claimants Moore and others.

Lockhart, Watson & Peterson (Edward W. Watson), Galveston, Tex., for claimant Bellamy.

Jacob Rassner, New York City, for claimant Zickl.

Walter F. Andrews, for officers and crew of The Esso Burlington. Nathan Tanenbaum, Abbo H. Kooistra and Christian W. Tolfsby, for officers and crew of The Esso New York.

KENNERLY, Chief Judge.

Following a collision in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 1951, between the Esso Suez and the Esso Greensboro, two steamships owned and operated by the Esso Shipping Company, in which there was heavy loss of life and injuries to many persons, besides large property loss, the Esso Shipping Company October 4, 1951, filed in this court its petition for exoneration from and limitation of liability, Title 46, §§ 183 to 189, U.S. C.A., and...

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