Globe Seaways, Inc., as Owner of S/t Rebecca, and as Bailee of the Cargo Laden Thereon v. Panama Canal Company

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

On May 14, 1967, plaintiff-appellee Globe Seaways’ [Globe’s] 50,000-ton tanker REBECCA was damaged while negotiating the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal. The district court found that neither Globe nor defendant-appel lant Panama Canal Company [Canal .Company], the United States Government agency which operates the Canal, 1 was negligent. In those circumstances the court concluded that § 291 of Title 2 of the Canal Zone Code imposed liability without fault upon the Canal Company. The Canal-' Company protests this locked-in liability and appeals this interlocutory…