Otto Candies, Inc. v. Great American Insurance Company

WEST, District Judge.

Libelant, Otto Candies, Inc., brings this-libel seeking recovery of certain alleged damages resulting from cargo loss and barge damage. Libelant, at the time of the loss in question, was a boat contractor who had chartered the Tug BETTY LOU from her owners, Ernest Moise and Harold Collins, and then entered into an agreement with Southeastern Drilling Corporation, who, at the time, was drilling an oil well in the Southeast Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi River .for Humble Oil & Refining Company, to furnish the use of the BETTY LOU to it for use in its drilling…