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MOBILE TOWING & WRECKING CO. v. DREDGE

Civ. A. No. 976.

299 F.Supp. 358 (1969)

MOBILE TOWING & WRECKING CO., Inc., an Alabama corporation, Libelant, v. A DREDGE, property of Gulf States Dredging Company, Inc., a Florida corporation, Libelee. A DREDGE, property of Gulf States Dredging Company, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Cross-Libelant, v. MOBILE TOWING & WRECKING CO., Inc., an Alabama corporation, Cross-Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Florida, Tallahassee Division.

May 8, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewey R. Villareal, Jr., of Fowler, White, Collins, Gillen, Humkey & Trenam, Tampa, Fla., for Mobile Towing.

Paul A. Louis and Bertha Claire Lee, of Sinclair, Barfield & Louis, Miami, Fla., for a Dredge, property of Gulf States.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

PREFACE

CARSWELL, Chief Judge.

In the predawn blackness of October 2, 1963, an unnamed and unmanned derrick barge in tow simply vanished from the face of the sea. This tale of the vanished vessel has an aura of mystery which only the open sea can conjure but lacks the elements of heroism and cruelty which would inspire a Conrad or a Hemingway. It is a mini-saga of the sea scarcely rendered less mysterious...

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