Legal Opinion
The J. N. Gilbert
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 22, 1915No. 2681PublishedCited by 6 opinions
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Hoyle Bank Steamship Company, Limited, owner of the steamship Hoyle Bank, against the steam tug J. N. Gilbert and the barge Spindle Top; the Higgins Oil & Fuel Company, claimant. From a decree, both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
This suit is for damages caused by a collision of the tug J. N. Gilbert and barge Spindle Top with the steamship Hoyle Bank in the harbor of Port Arthur, Tex. The libel charges as follows:
“Second. That on Wednesday, the 20th day of September, in the year nineteen hundred and eleven, the said steamship Hoyle Bank, with her steam engine, boilers, fixtures, apparel, and furniture on board thereof, was safely moored and lying in a usual and customary berth for such vessels, alongside the Texas Company’s dock at Port Arthur, in Jefferson county, Texas, and in said Eastern…
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