United States v. United Fruit Co.

BORAH, District Judge.

This ease involves a collision that occurred in Colon Harbor on the morning of October 28, 1923, at 6:24 a. m. between the steamship Abangarez, owned by tho United Fruit Company, and the submarine 0-5, a war vessel owned by the United States.

The steamship Abangarez prior to and at. the time of collision was in charge of a licensed Panama Canal pilot, and was proceeding from her place of anchorage in the harbor to the docks on a course practically due east. The submarino 0-5, as the leader of a section of four submarines with a pilot in training on board, was immediately…