Legal Opinion
Stoufflet v. Cenac Towing Co.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided November 25, 1964No. Admiralty—No. 4682, Division “C”PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEST, District Judge.
This libel is brought by Ernest J. StoufHet, Jr., owner of the barge ES-2, seeking recovery of the value of the barge which he claims was sunk and lost while chartered to respondent Cenac Towing Company, Inc. The libel is defended on the grounds that respondent, Cenac Towing Company, Inc., was not the charterer of the barge, but was acting only as a broker, and that therefore, it, respondent, is not liable for damages caused by the sinking of the barge while it was actually under charter to Delta Marine Divers, in whose custody it was at the time of the sinking. After…
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- Tomkins Cove Stone Co. v. Bleakley Transp. Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1930
- Howard v. Dobbins-Trinity Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940
- Banks v. Chas. Kurz Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1946
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- Cenac Towing Co. v. StouffletCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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