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THE POTOMAC

No. 7201.

105 F.2d 94 (1939)

THE POTOMAC. POTOMAC RIVER LINE, Inc., v. MONROE.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 17, 1939.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Phelan, of Washington, D. C., and George Forbes and Henry L. Wortche, both of Baltimore, Maryland, for appellants.

Samuel F. Beach, of Washington, D. C., and Albert V. Bryan and Howard W. Smith, both of Alexandria, Va., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and STEPHENS and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

GRONER, C. J.

In the evening of July 12, 1936, at about 10:45 o'clock, the motor launch "Seabird", 39 feet 11 inches long, 11 feet 2 inches wide, in charge of her owner and with a party of his friends aboard, and with her regulation lights burning brightly, was proceeding up the Potomac River en route to Alexandria, Virginia.

The night was clear, and the tide was flood.

When about off Fort Washington some five or six miles below Alexandria, and when...

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