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PLACID OIL COMPANY v. S.S. WILLOWPOOL

No. 704.

214 F.Supp. 449 (1963)

PLACID OIL COMPANY and Hassie Hunt Trust, W. H. Hunt, Trustee, Libellants and Cross-Respondents, v. S.S. WILLOWPOOL, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, etc., Pool Shipping Co., Ltd., and Sir R. Ropner and Co., (Management) Ltd., Respondents and Cross-Libellants.

United States District Court E. D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

February 20, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. A. Brown, Royston, Rayzor & Cook, Galveston, Tex., George W. Brown, Jr., Brown & Fulbright, Beaumont, Tex., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., for libellants and cross-respondents.

Edward W. Watson, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Galveston, Tex., for respondents and cross-libellants.

FISHER, District Judge.

This case concerns a collision between a moving vessel and a stationary unmanned gas well platform situated in navigable waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the Outer Continental Shelf, July 13, 1960.

Libellants were the owners of the fixed, off-shore, unmanned platform or structure made of steel and set into the bed of the Gulf of Mexico in approximately 100 feet of water, with its upper structure extending 50 feet above the surface of...

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