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UNITED STATES v. BRUCE DRY DOCK CO.

No. 6893.

65 F.2d 938 (1933)

UNITED STATES v. BRUCE DRY DOCK CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Earl Hoffman, U. S. Atty., and Wm. Logan Hill, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Pensacola, Fla., and Edouard F. Henriques, Sp. Asst. in Admiralty to Atty. Gen., of New Orleans, La., for the United States.

Philip D. Beall and John M. Coe, both of Pensacola, Fla., for appellee.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and SIBLEY, Circuit Judges.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The lightship Southpass No. 102, a public vessel of the United States, while moored at a wharf in a shipyard on Pensacola Bay, broke from her moorings during a severe hurricane which struck Pensacola on Monday, September 20, 1926, was thrown astern onto and totally destroyed a floating dry dock. Appellee, owner of the shipyard, wharf, and dry dock, filed its libel in personam against the United States under 46 USCA § 781, alleging as acts...

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