California Transport Corporation v. The Tug Accentor, Etc.

DANIEL HOLCOMBE THOMAS, District Judge.

Appellant, California Transport Corporation, owner of the super tanker T/S Gage Lund, brought suit in admiralty against the Tug Accentor and Clifford C. Northern, Jr., its owner and operator, for damages caused by a collision between the Lund and one of two barges being pushed by the Accentor. The trial court found that the .sole fault for the collision must be attributed to the Lund, and accordingly dismissed the libel at libelant’s cost.

At approximately 2119 hours on the night of August 29, 1958, the Lund left Quarantine Anchorage in the Mississippi…