OHIO RIVER COMPANY v. CONTINENTAL GRAIN COMPANY

Nos. 69 C 1420, 69 C 2294.

352 F.Supp. 505 (1972)

The OHIO RIVER COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. CONTINENTAL GRAIN COMPANY, Defendant, Third Party Plaintiff, v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC., American Commercial Barge Lines, Inc., the M/V CHICAGO TRADER and the M/V BAYOU LA REINE, Third Party Defendants. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES, INC., Cross-Plaintiff Cross-Defendant, v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC., Cross-Defendant Cross-Plaintiff. CONTINENTAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES, INC. owner of the M/V Chicago Trader, Cross-Plaintiff, v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC., owner of the M/V Bayou La Reine, Cross-Defendant. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC., Cross-Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES, INC., Cross-Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois.

December 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Johnson, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for Continental Navigation Co., plaintiff.

Heineke, Schrader, Marsch & Cuncannan, Chicago, Ill., for Oil Transport Co., Inc., defendant, cross-defendant and cross-plaintiff.

Michael A. Snyder, Bradley, Eaton, Jackman & McGovern, Chicago, Ill., for American Commercial Barge Lines, Inc., defendant, cross-plaintiff, and cross-defendant.

McCreary, Ray & Robinson, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff The Ohio River Co.

Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for Continental Grain Co., defendant and third party plaintiff.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND DECREE

EDWIN A. ROBSON, Chief Judge.

The Ohio River Company (Ohio River) and the Continental Navigation Company seek to recover in these suits in admiralty damages to their barges, OR-55 and CNC-195B, respectively. Oil Transport Company, Inc. (Oil Transport) and its towboat, the M/V Bayou La Reine, and American Commercial Barge Lines, Inc. and its towboat, the M/V Chicago Trader, were impleaded as third-party defendants in 69 C 2294...

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