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PANAMA CANAL CO. v. SOCIEDAD DE TRANSPORTES MARITIMOS

No. 17465.

272 F.2d 726 (1959)

PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, Appellant, v. SOCIEDAD DE TRANSPORTES MARITIMOS, S.A., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 30, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Markun, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, Paul A. Bentz, Gen. Counsel, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, Theodore P. Daly, New York City, for appellant.

Edwin Longcope, New York City, Charles E. Ramirez, Balboa, Canal Zone, Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City, Van Siclen & Ramirez, Woodrow de Castro, Balboa, Canal Zone, for libellants-appellees, Edward A. Neiley, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before RIVES, JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

In this case, as in Victorias Milling Company v. Panama Canal Company, 5 Cir., 272 F.2d 716, a ship going through the Panama Canal and in the charge of a pilot employed by the Panama Canal Company, struck the banks of the Canal. In both cases the libelants contended that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applies to allisions in the Canal when the ship is under compulsory pilotage. For the reasons given in Victorias...

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