AMERICAN UNION TRANSPORT CO. v. AGUADILLA TERMINAL, INC.

No. 5774.

302 F.2d 394 (1962)

AMERICAN UNION TRANSPORT CO., Inc. (of New York), Respondent and Claimant, Appellant, v. AGUADILLA TERMINAL, INC., et al., Libelants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vicente M. Ydrach, San Juan, P. R., with whom Hartzell, Fernandez & Novas, San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for appellant.

Henry N. Longley, New York City, with whom John W. R. Zisgen, New York City, Juan E. Geigel, San Juan, P. R., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, and Geigel & Silva, San Juan, P. R., were on brief, for Insurance Company of North America, appellee.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and ALDRICH and GANEY, Circuit Judges.


WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

On June 1, 1958, Raymond Construction Company of Puerto Rico completed construction for Aguadilla Terminal, Inc., of a facility for loading sugar in bulk into ocean-going vessels. The facility consisted of structures on shore for receiving bulk sugar and a trestle, mounted on steel legs embedded in concrete caissons sunk into the ocean floor and extending 660 feet out into an open roadstead near the port of Aguadilla, supporting a conveyor belt...

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