COMPANIA ANONIMA VEN. v. BALTIMORE STEAM PACKET CO.

No. 7309.

240 F.2d 241 (1957)

COMPANIA ANONIMA VENEZOLANA DE NAVEGACION, Claimant of THE Steamship CIUDAD DE MARACAIBO, Appellant, v. BALTIMORE STEAM PACKET COMPANY, Owner and Operator of THE Steamship CITY OF NORFOLK, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renato C. Giallorenzi, New York City (Robert H. Williams, Jr., Baltimore, Md., and Paul M. Jones, New York City, on brief), for appellant.

Karl F. Steinmann, Baltimore, Md. (Robert A. Bley and Terrence E. Burke, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and SOBELOFF, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from a decree in which it was held that the steamship Ciudad de Maracaibo was solely to blame for a collision with the steamship City of Norfolk, which occurred at 8:10 P.M., on October 5, 1954, under favorable weather conditions in the Craighill Channel in the Chesapeake Bay near the Port of Baltimore. A libel in admiralty was filed by the owner of the City of Norfolk against the Ciudad de Maracaibo and her owners, and a...

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