Southern Pacific S. S. Co. v. New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Co.

BORAH, District Judge.

This is an action by the Southern Pacific Steamship Company against the New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Company, Inc., to recover the damage suffered through the sinking of the steel deck barge known as Barge No. 10. The barge prior to and at the time of her sinking was tied up at libelant’s wharf at Algiers in the Mississippi river. On March 17, 1925, there was loaded thereon 1855.59 barrels of fuel oil belonging to the libelant; this amount being in addition to the 100 barrels that was already on board from a previous fueling. On the second morning thereafter the…