NEW ORLEANS COAL & BISSO TOWBOAT CO. v. GASTON S. S. CO.

No. 6693.

65 F.2d 722 (1933)

NEW ORLEANS COAL & BISSO TOWBOAT CO. et al. v. GASTON S. S. CO., Inc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 19, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip S. Gidiere and W. B. Spencer, Jr., both of New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Jas. Hy. Bruns, of New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

From an adverse decree in a suit for collision between the steamship Gaston and the steam tug Wilmot, the libelants, owners of the tug, appeal. The District Judge, finding the Wilmot solely at fault, exonerated the other vessel entirely. These facts are not in dispute. The collision occurred on September 21, 1928, at 11:30 in the morning in the harbor of New Orleans, at a point about 400 feet out from the New Orleans side of the river. The...

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