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COMPAGNIE GENERALE T. v. GOVERNOR OF THE PANAMA CANAL

No. 8314.

90 F.2d 225 (1937)

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE v. GOVERNOR OF THE PANAMA CANAL et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 26, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Lenihan, of Washington, D. C., L. S. Carrington, of Ancon, Canal Zone, and Octavio Fabrega, of Panama City, R. P., for appellant.

Lucian Y. Ray, Sp. Atty., in Admiralty, of New Orleans, La., and J. J. McGuigan, U. S. Atty., of Ancon, Canal Zone, for appellees.

Before FOSTER, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, as owner of the steamship Wisconsin, brought this suit against "the Panama Canal as a public utility operated as a waterway," the "Governor of the Canal as charged with the operation and management, and designated as the opposite party in a claim for damages to vessels by navigating in the Panama Canal and through the locks," and one Tawes, a canal pilot. The claim was that the Wisconsin, having paid her tolls and while in the...

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