The Independent

CAILLOUET, District Judge.

The New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Company, represented by its president, W. A. Bisso, made a verbal agreement, over the telephone, with the Texas Company, libellant herein, “to furnish some barges to move some oil” in the Mississippi River from the libellant’s plant at Marrero, Louisiana (which lies on the opposite river bank from the City of New Orleans), to the plant of the Lone Star Cement Company, in the Industrial Canal; such agreement followed his having been first asked by the representative of the libellant “to arrange to handle 5,000 barrels of oil from…