Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company v. The Steelore, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc., and Ore Steamship Corporation

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, 123 F.Supp. 346, holding the steamship Pan Virginia solely at fault for a collision occurring on May 10, 1952, between the Pan Virginia and the Steamship Steelore. It was accordingly decreed that the Ore Steamship Corporation, as the owner of the Steelore, was entitled to recover the damages sustained by the Steelore. The cross-libel of the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company against the Steelore and the Ore Steamship Corporation on account of the…