Mrs. Lottie Bass, Adm'x, Estate of Leo Bass, Deceased, Libelant-Appellant v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., Libelee-Appellee

This is an appeal from judgment entered in the United States District Court 113 F.Supp. 911, dismissing the libel brought in Admiralty by the widow and administratrix of the decedent, Leo Bass, who was killed when struck by the boom of a whirler boat upon which he was working when it collided with a telephone cable constructed by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company across the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky.

The appellant contends that the libelee-appellee was negligent in creating an unreasonable obstruction to navigation, in maintaining its cable across the canal where the…