TEXAS & P. RY. CO. v. ANGOLA TRANSFER CO.

No. 4885.

18 F.2d 18 (1927)

TEXAS & P. RY. CO. v. ANGOLA TRANSFER CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 29, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip S. Gidiere, of New Orleans, La. (Spencer, Gidiere, Phelps & Dunbar, of New Orleans, La., on the brief), for appellant.

John D. Grace, M. A. Grace, and Edwin H. Grace, all of New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.


FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages for the sinking of the steamboat Wm. Edenborn, owned by appellee, alleged to have been caused by the improper construction of a bridge over Old river, a branch of Red river, in Louisiana, owned by appellant, with which the said vessel collided. The material facts are these:

On May 5, 1912, at about 8:30 a. m., the Edenborn, with a barge loaded with a cut of railroad cars, made fast to...

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