Lowery v. The Tug Ellen S. Bouchard

FOLEY, District Judge.

This seemingly interminable admiralty litigation should be in the last stages-. The main issue imposing sole responsibility for the collision on the Bouchard interests was decided by me January 81, 1955 (Lowery v. The Tug Ellen Bouchard, D.C., 128 F.Supp. 16; affirmed opinion below, 2 Cir., 229 F.2d 436). Interlocutory decrees were signed appointing the same Commissioner to ascertain and compute the cargo and vessel damage. The Report of the Commissioner as to the cargo damage was substantially modified by me on June 4, 1957, Cargill, Inc., The Frank A. Lowery, D.C., 159…