ANDROS SHIPPING CO. v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

No. 18688.

298 F.2d 720 (1962)

The ANDROS SHIPPING CO., Ltd., Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, and Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo, Appellees. EMPRESA NACIONAL DEL PETROLEO, Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond T. Greene, Allen A. Baillie, Nicholas J. Healy, III, New York City, L. S. Carrington, Balboa, Canal Zone, Healy, Baillie & Burke, New York City, Thomas L. Rohrer, New York City, Walter G. McNeill, Mount Vernon, N. Y., on the brief, for Andros Shipping Co., Ltd.

Theodore P. Daly, Asst. Gen. Counsel, David J. Markun, Gen. Counsel, Paul T. Dunn, Atty., Panama Canal Co., Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, for Panama Canal Co.

Roy Phillipps, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, Raymond T. Greene, New York City, Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, of counsel, for Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo.

Before HUTCHESON, RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is one of three appeals,1 argued the same day, in which this Court is asked to reverse judgment for the Panama Canal Company in an action by a shipowner for damages to a vessel caused by its striking a bank of the Canal while it was under the compulsory pilotage2 of pilots employed by the Canal Company.

In the instant case the S./T. Andros Venture, a Canadian flag...

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