STATE ROAD DEPT. OF FLA. v. GULF STATES MARINE & M. CO.

Civ. A. No. 398.

168 F.Supp. 242 (1958)

STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA, Plaintiff, v. GULF STATES MARINE & MINING COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Florida, Marianna Division.

December 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Austin, Jacksonville, Fla. for plaintiff.

Richard P. Warfield, Fisher & Hepner, Pensacola, Fla., Thomas B. Wheeler, New Orleans, La., for defendant.


CARSWELL, Chief Judge.

This cause is submitted to the Court without jury on depositions and stipulations. The action arises out of collision of defendant's tug with the Hathaway Bridge, owned by plaintiff, at Panama City, Florida, shortly after noon April 4, 1952. The evidence discloses that the tug was pulling with a "Y" yoke three empty steel barges in close line. The steel barges were each approximately 185 feet long and 35 feet wide. The tug's operator had clear...

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