Legal Opinion
Louis Dreyfus & Cie. v. Panama Canal Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1962No. 18545PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
This is the third of three appeals, argued the same day, involving an allision in the Panama Canal. 1
Louis Dreyfus et Cie. a French partnership, filed a libel against the Panama Canal Company for damages sustained when its ship, the Charles L. D., struck the banks of the Canal during a transit under compulsory of a Canal Company pilot. 2 The trial judge found that the pilot exercised his responsibility for the navigation of the Charles L. D. with due care and entered judgment against the libelant. We hold that Dreyfus has failed on appeal to demonstrate that the finding…
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