Triplett v. United States

COX, Chief Judge.

This is a suit In Admiralty in per-sonam against the United States for the fatal injury on November 24, 1961, of a school boy and his resulting death on November 26, 1961. William Charles Wagner, intestate deceased, was fatally injured as an invited passenger of a privately owned and operated motor boat on the inland navigable waters of the Yazoo River within the state of Mississippi near Vicksburg when the motor boat being operated in the night time collided with an unlighted and unmarked vessel of the United States Engineers then anchored in the channel of the river. This…