Lee v. Candies

AINSWORTH, District Judge.

This libel in admiralty involves a head-on collision between two vessels, the M/V MISS MAZUR1 and the Tug CAPTAIN PAUL,2 which was pushing ahead a single tow, the Barge BROWN AND ROOT 105.3 The collision occurred on the early afternoon of June 12, 1958, at a point a short distance beyond the eastern end of the north guide wall of the Bayou Boeuf Lock of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Morgan City, Louisiana, on a day when the weather was clear and visibility good.

*666The CAPTAIN PAUL was heading east, having just locked through the Bayou Boeuf Lock behind the Tug…