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SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HIGH. DEPT. v. THE FORT FETTERMAN

No. 1073.

155 F.Supp. 359 (1957)

The SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, Libellant, v. THE FORT FETTERMAN, her engines, tackle, equipment, appurtenances, etc., Libellee. CHAS. KURZ & CO., Inc., as Owner of THE FORT FETTERMAN, Cross-Libellant. v. The SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, Cross-Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

October 17, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sinkler, Gibbs & Simons, Charleston, S. C., T. C. Callison, Atty. Gen., James S. Verner, Asst. Atty. Gen., for libellant and cross-respondent.

Waring & Brockinton, Charleston, S. C., for libellee and cross-libellant.

WYCHE, District Judge. (Sitting by Designation)

In this suit, a libel in rem by the South Carolina State Highway Department, an agency of the State of South Carolina, the Highway Department seeks damages in the sum of $250,000 against the T-2 tanker Fort Fetterman, owned by Chas. Kurz & Co., Inc., as the result of a collision between the Fort Fetterman and the Highway Department bridge across the Ashley river in Charleston harbor.

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