The Clement Smith

BURNS, District Judge.

This case involves a- collision between . the steamship Clement Smith and a derrick boat belonging to the Morgan’s Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Company, in the Mississippi river, at New Orleans, on. August 10, 1921, about midday. The derrick boat was tied up to its landing on the city side of the river, near the landing of the Third District ferry, and, while in that position, was struck by the Clement Smith, carried a short distance out into the river, and was sunk.

The Calvert Navigation Company, owner of the Clement Smith, on the theory that the sinking of…