Legal Opinion
Intracoastal Liquid Mud, Inc. v. Choate
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 7, 1969No. 2754PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOOD, Judge.
This is an admiralty action in which plaintiffs seek to recover damages for the loss of marine equipment and several hundred barrels of liquid drilling mud. This loss was sustained when a barge, loaded with a cargo of liquid mud, capsized while being pushed by defendant’s tug, causing some of the mud and several items of marine equipment to be spilled into the water and lost. The suit was instituted by the lessee of the barge, Intracoastal Liquid Mud, Inc., and the owner of the cargo, Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation, against the owner of the tugboat, Avery O. Choate, d/b/a…
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