Eagle Oil Transport Co. v. Bowers Southern Dredging Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas; J. C. Hutcheson, Jr., Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Bowers Southern Dredging Company against the steamship San Valerio; the Eagle Oil Transport Company, Limited, claimant. Decree for libelant, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
On November 24 and 25, 1916, the appellee was engaged in dredging in a slip between two docks in the port of Galveston, and had a dredge located in that slip, to which dredge was attached a line of floating pipe, supported by pontoons, extending around the pier immediately west of that slip to the next pier in that direction. At the turn or elbow of the pipe line it was anchored. On the morning of November 25th the steamship San Valerio, while it was being backed out of its berth alongside the pier immediately east of the slip, collided with the line of the anchor…
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