Legal Opinion
Mengel Co. v. Inland Waterways Corporation
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided September 7, 1940No. 342PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAILLOUET, District Judge.
The libellant herein seeks a personal judgment against the respondent, Inland Waterways Corporation, in the sum of $1,-624.16, with interest and costs, for damages alleged to have been sustained by libellant’s barge Mengel No. 2, whilst in tow by respondent’s S. S. “Thorpe.”
At or about midnight of June 24, .1937, at Wood River, Illinois, a three-barge tow was made up, with the barge No. 629 (out of St. Louis, Mo.) in the lead, and libellant’s Mengel No. 2 (on starboard or right hand side looking towards the tow from the S. S. Thorpe) and barge R.T.C. (on port). This…
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