Courtney v. Walker

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

A libel was filed in the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore, on the 5th day of March, 1926, by Warren J. Courtney, the appellant, as owner, for damages to the schooner Columbia P. C., while tied up to the north end of a slip in Baltimore harbor, near the plant of the Potomae Poultry Pood Company. The slip was about 185 feet wide, and extended from the harbor to a point at or near the plant of the Potomae Company, and ran in a general south to north direction.

At the time of the accident, on February 25, 1926, a large steamer,…