Louisiana Court of Appeal August 7, 1969, No. 2754 (Intracoastal Liquid Mud, Inc. v. Choate)

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.