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SINGER v. DORR

Civ. A. No. 14421.

272 F.Supp. 931 (1967)

Mrs. Barbara Lynn Whitley SINGER, widow of Lester Karl Singer, Jr., Individually and as Administratrix of the Succession of Lester Karl Singer, Jr., and as Next Friend of the Minor, Karl David Singer v. Louis R. DORR, d/b/a Dorr Towing Company, Dorr Towing Co., Inc., Federal Barge Lines, Inc., Port City Barge Lines, Inc.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

June 16, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr., Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., for Federal Barge Lines, Inc. and Port City Barge Lines, Inc.

Patrick L. Burke, James A. George, Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, New Orleans, La., for Dorr Towing Co., Inc. and Stuyvesant Ins. Co.

HEEBE, District Judge:

This matter raises interesting and novel questions concerning the existence, nature, and extent of the implied warranty of workmanlike service which may be owed by a tug owner to a barge owner. The proceedings out of which those issues now arise were, insofar as is relevant to an understanding and determination of those issues, as follows:

Lester Singer was employed by Dorr Towing, Inc., as a deckhand on Dorr's tug, the "Big Louie II...

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