George v. Gateway Barge Line, Inc.

de la HOUSSAYE, Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellee, Albert T. George, as lessor of a camp located on Bayou Can-cienne Canal, filed suit seeking to obtain judgment against Defendant-Appellant, Gateway Barge Line, Inc., for damages caused by Appellant’s tugboat and barge to a pile cluster placed in the Cancienne Canal as protection for his wharf. On May 25, 1972, Mr. W. LeRoy Ardoin was proceeding along the Cancienne Canal when he saw a barge which had stopped against plaintiff’s wharf. Upon approaching the barge and the wharf, he saw that the piling in front of the wharf had been knocked down and had…