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BISHOP v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 67-1205.

308 F.Supp. 228 (1969)

Mrs. Maxine Hilliard BISHOP et al. v. UNITED STATES of America.

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

December 31, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Badeaux & Discon, Reginald T. Badeaux and Kierr & Gainsburgh, by Jack C. Benjamin, Trial Atty., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

U. S. Atty., Kathleen Ruddell, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., William E. Gwatkin, III, Trial Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

MITCHELL, District Judge.

Mrs. Maxine Hilliard Bishop, widow of John Alvah Bishop, a seaman who lost his life when the S/S Baton Rouge Victory was sunk by an enemy mine in the Long Tao Channel of the Saigon River, South Viet Nam, on August 23, 1966, individually and on behalf of her two minor children, John A. Bishop and Thomas Neal Bishop, brought this action against the United States of America to recover damages...

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