THE HORNBY CASTLE

No. 131.

26 F.2d 378 (1928)

THE HORNBY CASTLE. THE CODY.

District Court, S. D. Texas, at Houston.

May 19, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Holden, Dist. Atty., and Howell Ward, Asst. Dist. Atty., both of Houston, Tex., for the United States.

Lockhart, Hughes & Lockhart, of Galveston, Tex., for cross-libelant and petitioner.


HUTCHESON, District Judge.

The admitted facts which furnished the setting for the collision are:

The steamship Cody, coming up the channel from Galveston to Houston at a point some little distance below Green's bayou sighted the masts of the Hornby Castle coming down the channel, anl blew a long blast on her whistle, which in the Houston Ship Channel is known as the bend signal.

At that time there was a tug towing two shell barges proceeding up the...

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