Cuyamel Fruit Co. v. Nedland

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

About 2:30 o’clock in the morning of April 13, 1922, the steamship Kewanee, owned by the United States of America, and then loaded to capacity, anchored in the Mississippi river below Algiers Point, about 400 feet from the west bank, opposite New Orleans, being, when she straightened out on her anchor, about 75 to 100 feet upstream from the steamship Omoa, which had no cargo aboard, and had been anchored where she then was since February 14, 1922. About 3 o’clock that morning another vessel, the Chicago Maru, came up and anchored between 200 and 250 feet outside the…