Legal Opinion
D. M. Picton & Co. v. Eastes
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1947No. 11755PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
The libel was in personam for damages to the motor boat “Tramp,” as the result of a collision in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a mile or two from the shore line, with a partly submerged and concealed pile. The claim was that it was the fault of both respondents that the pile was there constituting a concealed menace to navigation. The fault charged against Superior was that it had originally driven the pile as a part of the “Creole Drilling platform,” and that, when the platform was later burned leaving burned and damaged piling and timber as a menace to…
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