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SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. v. BURKE

No. 6551.

62 F.2d 1015 (1933)

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. v. BURKE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 24, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Palmer Pillans, of Mobile, Ala., Hugh Mallory, of Selma, Ala., and E. D. Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Harry H. Smith, of Mobile, Ala., and E. W. Pettus, of Selma, Ala., for appellee.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, alleging that he was the owner of the steamer Helen Burke, filed a libel in admiralty claiming damages for injury to that steamer resulting from its smokestack, while the steamer was passing upstream through the draw span of the highway bridge over the Alabama river at Selma, Ala., coming into contact with lines of the appellant strung from one bank of the river to the other, and passing diagonally over the bridge. The libel attributed...

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