Legal Opinion

Mariblanca Navegacion, S.A., as Owner of the Steamship Mariposa, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc. v. Panama Canal Company

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided January 18, 1962No. 18625_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This is the second of three appeals, argued the same day, involving an allision in the Panama Canal. 1

The Mariblanca Navegación, S. A., a Panamanian corporation, appeals from a final decree of the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone dismissing its libel against the Panama Canal Company. The damages were sustained when the steamer, Mariposa, struck the east bank of the Gaillard Cut, during a northbound transit of the canal while under compulsory pilot-age of a Panama Canal Company pilot. 2 Here, as in the two companion cases, to prevail the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. McAllister v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. The Andros Shipping Co., Ltd. v. Panama Canal Company, and Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo, Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo v. Panama Canal CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  3. Victorias Milling Co., Inc., as Owners of the M/v Nonsuco v. Panama Canal CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. China Union Lines, Ltd., Mitsubishi International Corporation, Lan Jing-Chau, Armement Deppe, S.A. v. A. O. Andersen & Co., American Cyanamid CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  2. Louis Dreyfus & Cie. v. Panama Canal CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  3. Isaac Myles v. Quinn Menhaden Fisheries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  4. United States v. Emery H. JoyceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1975
  5. The Andros Shipping Co., Ltd. v. Panama Canal Company, and Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo, Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo v. Panama Canal CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962

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