Hegglund v. United States

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

A rehearing was granted in this ease at the last term. Upon a reconsideration, it is ordered that the opinion previously filed be withdrawn, but that the judgment of affirmance stand with a restatement of our reasons which follows:

Hegglund as master of the motor tank-ship Bidwell, owned by Sun Oil Company, was convicted for discharging oil, and suffering and permitting it to be discharged, from his ship into Calcasieu River in Louisiana, being coastal waters of the United States, on April 16, 1937, contrary to the Oil Pollution Act of June 7, 1924, 33 U.S.C.A. § 431 et…