LOUIS DREYFUS & CIE. v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

No. 18545.

298 F.2d 733 (1962)

LOUIS DREYFUS & CIE., Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Longcope, Hill, Betts, Yamaoka, Freehill & Longcope, New York City, DeCastro & Robles, Balboa, Canal Zone, for appellant.

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

Before HUTCHESON, RIVES, and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This is the third of three appeals, argued the same day, involving an allision in the Panama Canal.1

Louis Dreyfus et Cie. a French partnership, filed a libel against the Panama Canal Company for damages sustained when its ship, the Charles L. D., struck the banks of the Canal during a transit under compulsory of a Canal Company pilot.2 The trial judge found that the pilot exercised...

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