HEGGLUND v. UNITED STATES

No. 8684.

100 F.2d 68 (1938)

HEGGLUND v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 22, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam H. Jones, Charles A. McCoy, and Alvin O. King, all of Lake Charles, La., Joiner Cartwright, of Beaumont, Tex., and M. A. Grace, Edwin H. Grace, and Daniel H. Grace, all of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Harvey G. Fields, U. S. Atty., and J. Fair Hardin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Shreveport, La.

Walace Hawkins, of Dallas, Tex., and Samuel C. Lipscomb and A. D. Lipscomb, both of Beaumont, Tex., amici curiæ on behalf of appellant.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

A rehearing was granted in this case at the last term. Upon a reconsideration, it is ordered that the opinion previously filed be withdrawn, but that the judgment of affirmance stand with a restatement of our reasons which follows:

Hegglund as master of the motor tankship Bidwell, owned by Sun Oil Company, was convicted for discharging oil, and suffering and permitting it to be discharged, from his ship into Calcasieu River in Louisiana...

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