THE WESTERN QUEEN

No. 5821.

46 F.2d 279 (1931)

THE WESTERN QUEEN. THE COMMERCIAL PATHFINDER. UNITED STATES v. OSAGE S. S. CO., Limited.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 15, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Holden, U. S. Atty., of Houston, Tex. and Howell Ward, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellant.

Carl G. Stearns, of Houston, Tex., and Roscoe H. Hupper, of New York City, for appellee.

Before FOSTER and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and GRUBB, District Judge.


WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The owner of the steamship Commercial Pathfinder filed its libel against the United States, the owner of the steamship Western Queen, to recover damages caused by the Western Queen colliding with the Commercial Pathfinder while the latter was moored at the end of Galveston Pier 35. The collision occurred at or near 6 p. m. on November 12, 1927. Prior to the collision the Pathfinder had been engaged in loading sulphur from a chute on the end...

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