Gulf Wave Towing Co. v. Mitchell

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

These three libels, consolidated for trial, all arise out of the sinking and subsequent loss of the Barge W-123 in the Mississippi River near Happy Jack, Louisiana, on October 10, 1957. The first proceeding was brought by Gulf Wave Towing Company, Inc., as a broker, for various towing services performed for V. J. Mitchell, a contractor, at whose landing the barge sank. Mitchell, in this proceeding, filed a cross-libel against Gulf Wave for the loss of a cargo of riprap owned by him aboard the barge when it sank. Gulf Wave implead-ed the M/V Carlton and her…