Sheridan Transportation Co., and Tug New York Co. v. United States of America

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

The owners of the barge MARY J. SHERIDAN [SHERIDAN barge] appeal the district court’s finding that they were solely to blame for the barge’s allision with the submerged wrecks of the GENEVIEVE LYKES and the LETITIA LYKES [the wrecks] in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. We conclude that the district court’s findings as to legally relevant facts are incomplete; that the court failed to address certain factual and legal considerations that may absolve appellants of the burden of proving causation under THE PENNSYLVANIA rule; and that as a matter of law,…