Legal Opinion
The Anaconda
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 10, 1947No. 5624PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOBIE, Circuit Judge.
Smith-Douglass Company, Incorporated, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a libel against the Oil Screw Syosset and Wood-ford Townsend and James Townsend. The District Court dismissed the libel and libellant has appealed.
Libellant was the owner of the barge Anaconda, of the burden of 2,217 gross tons, with a length of 267.3 feet, a width of 46 feet and a depth of 23.6 feet. The Syosset was a diesel ocean tug of the burden of 176 gross tons, with a length of 102.6 feet, a width of 23 feet and a depth of 10.5 feet.
The libellant’s…
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