PANAMA CANAL COMPANY v. MV JANE D

Civ. No. 6229.

303 F.Supp. 762 (1969)

PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, a federal corporation, Plaintiff, v. MV JANE D, her engines, tackle, apparel, and furniture, etc., and Inter America Transportation Corporation, her owner, and Rehavam Adiel, her master, Defendants.

District Court D. Canal Zone, Balboa Division.

September 18, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of General Counsel, for plaintiff.

Henry L. Newell, Balboa, Canal Zone, for defendant.


ORDER SUSTAINING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

CROWE, District Judge.

On February 1, 1966, while the MV JANE D was at sea in the Caribbean, she suffered an emergency due to excessive water entering her bilges. She made a distress call for assistance. Certain U. S. military air-sea rescue aircraft located her in very rough seas and swells and dropped barrels of gasoline to her for use in operating her emergency bilge pump. She advised the aircraft that she...

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