Wilmington Transp. Co. v. Standard Oil Co.

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken by the Wilmington Transportation Company from an interlocutory decree in admiralty adjudging appellant solely responsible for a collision between the tanker W. S, Miller owned by Standard Oil Company, appellee, and a drawbridge owned by the Southern Pacific Company across a navigable channel in Los Angeles Harbor leading from the turning basin through the drawbridge in question tO' the West Basin.

At the time of the collision the oil tanker was being towed by two tugs belonging to Wilmington Transportation Company, and the pilot of the latter company…