The Gansfjord

BURNS, District Judge.

The libel of information was filed on behalf of the United States against the Norwegian steamship Gansfjord, under charter to the United Fruit Company, a domestic corporation, charging that the vessel negligently collided with the East Jetty wall of South Pass at a point about 400 feet above the East Jetty Light, damaging same to the extent of $2,556.37, in violation of sections 14 and 16 of the Rivers and Harbors Act approved March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1152 [33 USCA §§ 408, 411, 412; Comp. St. §§ 9919, 9921]).

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