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HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. TUG CROCHET

No. 8051.

288 F.Supp. 147 (1968)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. TUG CROCHET, her engines, etc., M. L. Crochet Towing Co., Inc., and the United States of America.

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

August 14, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Carroll, Jr., Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Yancey & Farrel, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Thomas F. McGovern, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Louis C. LaCour, U. S. Atty., James D. Carrier, and Kathleen Ruddell, Asst. U. S. Attys., for respondent-impleaded United States of America.

Lemle & Kelleher, by Charles E. Lugenbuhl, Trial Atty., New Orleans, La., for claimant-respondent, M. L. Crochet Towing Co., Inc.

Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, by Tom F. Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., for Cargill, Inc., third-party defendant.

MITCHELL, District Judge.

Libelant, Humble Oil & Refining Company, filed suit against the Tug Crochet and her owner, M. L. Crochet Towing Co., Inc. and the United States of America for damages allegedly sustained when Humble's Esso Barge 261 sank while being pushed by the Tug Crochet as a result of striking a partially submerged barge in the Mississippi River at Red Eye Crossing. Libelant contends that the accident was caused by the negligence...

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