Alamo Water Transportation Company v. United States

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge:

This is an action by the United States brought under 33 U.S.C. § 408 to recover damages caused by the respondent’s barge’s overriding a navigational aid, a lighted buoy in the Texas City Channel. The district court, United States v. Tug Otto, 296 F.Supp. 1130, in finding for the government, found that the buoy had been made worthless. On this appeal the only complaint relates to the admissibility or effect of an exhibit, Exhibit 11, being the report of a Coast Guard Board of Survey recording that in its opinion the buov was “beyond economical repair * * * [and should…