Compania De Navegacion Interior, S. A. v. Boston-Virginia Transp. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas; Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., Judge. _ _ Suits in admiralty by the Boston-Virginia Transportation Company and the Freeport & Tampico Fuel Oil Corporation against the Com-pañía De Navegación Interior, S. A. From the decrees, both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
[1] A collision occurred, about 8 o’clock at night, between the steamship L. V. Stoddard and certain barges then being towed by the steam tug Tomboyache, while the steamship was lying at anchor in the Panuco river a short distance below Tampico, Mexico, taking on a cargo of crude oil from barges alongside. The river at this point is between 1,000 and 1,200 feet wide, and the fairway from 700 to 800 feet wide. The steamship had been anchored by *869a pilot near the left edge of the channel, and had swung towards the left bank, and was held athwart that part of the river by…
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