Flowers Transportation, Inc. v. American River Transportation Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

READY, Chief Judge.

In this admiralty action, plaintiffs Flowers Transportation, Inc., and Flowers Transportation Company, Ltd. (Flowers) sue American River Transportation Company (American), in personam, and the M/V ROBERTA TABOR, in rem, for damage sustained to two barges, RF 307B and RF 515B, in the tow of the Flowers vessel M/V GLADYS FLOWERS. Flowers’ injury resulted from a collision between the GLADYS FLOWERS and ROBERTA TABOR as the two vessels attempted to pass one another at Randolph Bend on the Lower Mississippi River. Defendants counterclaim for damage to Barge TCB…