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ALTER CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 73-20-D.

412 F.Supp. 73 (1976)

ALTER COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. Iowa, Davenport Division.

April 16, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Johnson, Lord, Bissell & Brook, John J. Henely, Chicago, Ill., George A. Goebel, Davenport, Iowa, for plaintiff.

Allen L. Donielson, U.S. Dist. Atty., S.D. Iowa; James R. Rosenbaum, Asst. U.S. Dist. Atty., Anthony W. Gross and Emmett B. Lewis, of Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Lawrence Barnett, Asst. Dist. Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis, Mo., for defendant.

ORDER

STUART, District Judge.

This cause came on for trial to the Court on August 12, 1975 on the issue of liability. Plaintiff seeks to recover damages from the United States on the theory that the government lock personnel negligently utilized their statutory and regulatory power to control movements of tows in government locks and approaches so as to cause the Motor Vessel (M/V) YETTA ALTER to lose control of her tow and to subsequently collide with Dam...

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