Legal Opinion
Parker Bros. & Company, Inc., of the Tugs Gertrude and Annie O v. J. E. De Forest
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 1955No. 14965_1PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal in admiralty is from a decree of the district court holding appellant liable for half of the damages sustained by appellee’s tug Florence, as a result of a collision which occurred on the evening of Juné 24, 1949, near Beacon No. 58, between the Lynchburg Ferry Crossing and San Jacinto State Park.
The tug Florence, owned and operated by appellee, was being used at the time of the collision for towing sand barges on the Houston Ship Channel. She was proceeding in an easterly direction down the channel, towing astern the . empty barge, H-56. Near Beacon No. 59,…
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