Koch-Ellis Marine Contractors, Inc. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

This is an appeal in admiralty from an interlocutory decree, based on findings, Sewerage & Water Board v. The Joe L. Hill, D.C., 118 F.Supp. 951,1 that unattended, wild and heavily loaded riv*772er barges KE17 and KE22, owned by respondent-appellant, collided with and caused damage to a cluster piling and monorail, a part of its River Water Intake Wharf, and that respondent’s negligence was the proximate cause thereof.

Here, urging upon us that this appeal is a trial de novo 2 and this court must draw its own inferences from the facts, appellant insists that there is no direct evidence whatever,…