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ATKINS v. ALABAMA DRYDOCK & SHIPBUILDING COMPANY

No. 2675.

195 F.Supp. 944 (1960)

J. R. ATKINS, doing business as Alabama Fruit and Produce Company, as Owner of the MV Rio Sixaola, Libelant, v. ALABAMA DRYDOCK & SHIPBUILDING COMPANY, a corporation, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. Alabama, S. D.

April 18, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood & Roberts, and Johnston & Johnston, Mobile, Ala., for libelant.

Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, Ala., for respondent.

DANIEL HOLCOMBE THOMAS, District Judge.

Libelant brings this action in admiralty, seeking recovery of damages as the result of an alleged collision on the night of February 26, 1958, between the drilling rig El Dorado, under construction in respondent's yard, and libelant's MV Rio Sixaola.

It is the contention of the libelant that the El Dorado broke loose from her mooring on the night in question, drifted uncontrolled across the Mobile River, and collided...

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