Turner Terminals, Inc. v. United States

RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

In the proceeding in the District Court, Turner Terminals, Inc., as libellant, sought to recover damages from the United States alleged to have been sustained by the libellant as the result of the fault of a public vessel of the Government, the Santa Maria Hills, which broke loose from its mooring at one of the docks of the libellant and struck and collided with another of its docks, from which was sustained damage of the cost of repairing the dock, in the amount of $12,500. The suit, proceeding in rem and in personam, is expressly predicated upon the terms "of the…