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HORTON & HORTON, INC. v. THE S/S ROBERT E. HOPKINS

No. 17562.

269 F.2d 914 (1959)

HORTON & HORTON, INC., Libelant, Appellant, v. THE S/S ROBERT E. HOPKINS, Etc., Tide Water Associated Oil Company, Inc., Claimant, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 2, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Eikel, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Joseph Newton, Houston, Tex., Warner Pyne, New York City, Pyne, Brush, Smith & Michelsen, New York City, and Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., of counsel. Sweeney J. Doehring, for appellees.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an interlocutory decree1 in admiralty finding two vessels in a collision at fault and directing that the damages be divided.

The collision occurred in the Houston Ship Channel on December 12, 1955, at 11:30 P.M. The Channel is a narrow, busy one about 400 feet wide. The S/S Hopkins, an ocean-going tank vessel, was proceeding inland and the Tug...

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