Legal Opinion
The Aurora
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided February 9, 1945No. 811PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAILLOUET, District Judge.
This action against the motor boat Aurora and its owner, Fred Loje, brought by Leo Protich, owner of the motor boat Karankawa, grows out of the Aurora’s admitted collision with the Karankawa on Bayou Bell, in St. Bernard Parish, within the Eastern District of Louisiana, at approximately 9:15 o’clock on the night of September 8, 1944.
Each of these motor boats being over 40 feet in length and not more than 65 feet is of the Class 3 designation, 46 U.S.C.A. § 526a.
Both vessels, as they were under way immediately before and at the moment of collision, the Karankawa…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- The M. J. RudolphCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- The WolsumCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1926
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