THE BUZZARD

No. 6974.

68 F.2d 467 (1934)

THE BUZZARD. MOBILE TOWING & WRECKING CO. v. MUNSON S. S. LINE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 12, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry H. Smith, of Mobile, Ala. (Smith & Johnston, of Mobile, Ala., of counsel), for Mobile Towing & Wrecking Co.

Alexis T. Gresham, of Mobile, Ala. (Pillans, Cowley & Gresham, of Mobile, Ala., of counsel), for Munson S. S. Line.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in admiralty, both in personam and in rem, to recover damages alleged to have been caused to the steamship Muntropic, owned by the Munson Line, by the negligence of the tug Buzzard, owned by the Mobile Towing & Wrecking Company, in assisting in a movement of the ship from the Todd Dry Dock on the Mobile river to a dock in the harbor. The ship collided with a cluster of piling in the river, breaking off part of one of the blades...

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