UNITED STATES v. M/V WUERTTEMBERG

No. 9109.

330 F.2d 498 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America and Alexander H. Hood, Appellees, v. M/V WUERTTEMBERG, and Partenteederei Wuerttemberg, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold A. Mouzon and B. Allston Moore, Jr., Charleston, S. C. (Moore & Mouzon, Charleston, S. C., on the brief), for appellants.

Thomas F. McGovern, Atty., Dept. of Justice (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Terrell L. Glenn, U. S. Atty., and Morton Hollander, Thomas P. Simpson, and Leavenworth Colby, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on the brief), for appellee United States.

Ben Scott Whaley, Charleston, S. C. (Barnwell, Whaley, Stevenson & Patterson, and Nathaniel L. Barnwell, Charleston, S. C., on the brief), for appellee Alexander H. Hood.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and BARKSDALE and CRAVEN, District Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

In these actions arising out of a collision between two ships, we affirm the District Court's finding of fault on the part of the Wuerttemberg, for those findings are supported by substantial evidence, but we think fault on the part of the Swerve also plainly appears.

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