LOUIS DREYFUS & CIE. v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

No. 3665.

180 F.Supp. 313 (1960)

LOUIS DREYFUS & CIE., as owner of THE Steamship CHARLES, L.D., her engines, boilers, etc., Libelant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, a corporation, Respondent.

District Court, Canal Zone, Division Balboa.

February 2, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City, and De Castro & Robles, Balboa, Canal Zone, for libelant.

Bentz, Markun, Cooper & Daly, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, for respondent.


GUTHRIE F. CROWE, District Judge.

Statement of Facts

This is an action in admiralty instituted by Louis Dreyfus & Cie., a French partnership, owner of the motor vessel Charles L.D., against the Panama Canal Company for the recovery of damages allegedly sustained by the libelant as the result of a striking of the banks of the Panama Canal while the vessel was transiting the Canal with a pilot employed by the respondent.

On December 27, 1951, the...

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