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PETITION OF REPUBLIC OF FRANCE

No. 1870.

171 F.Supp. 497 (1959)

Petition of REPUBLIC OF FRANCE, as Owner, and of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, as Agent, of THE Steamship GRANDCAMP, in a Cause of Exoneration from and Limitation of Liability.

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

March 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence S. Eastham, of Eastham, Dale & Forney, Houston, Tex., and Edwin Longcope, of Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City, for petitioners.

William B. Butler, U. S. Atty., and James E. Ross, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., and Dale M. Green, Dept. of Justice, Spokane, Wash., for claimant United States.

Preston Shirley, of McLeod, Mills, Shirley & Alexander, Galveston, Tex., for claimant Texas City Terminal Ry. Co.

CONNALLY, District Judge.

Statement of the Case

This is a proceeding by petitioners, who allege that they are the owner, and agent or operator of the S. S. Grandcamp, for exoneration from or limitation of liability resulting from the fire upon, and explosion of, that vessel while she was loading a cargo of Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate at Texas City, Texas, April 16, 1947. This was the now famous Texas City Disaster of April 16-17, 1947, wherein in excess...

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