Legal Opinion

The Mary B. Curtis

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 13, 1918No. 3107PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Suit in admiralty for collision by the Bowers Southern Dredging Company against the barge Pittsburg, the Sun Company, claimant, and the tugs Mary B. Curtis and Ellis, the D. W. Ryan Towboat Company, Incorporated, claimant. Decree for libelant against both claimants, and they appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

GRUBB, District Judge.

This case comprises two separate appeals from a decree in admiralty rendered' by the District Court for' the Eastern District of Texas in favor of the appellee, the Bowers Southern Dredging Company, in each appeal, and against the respective appellant, and its coappellee. The appellees, against whom the decree was rendered, severed and separately appealed, joining their respective-corespondents as appellees. The cause of action arose out of a collision in the Sabine-Neches Canal between a dredge of the Bowers Southern Dredging Company and a tow and its two tugboats. The…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Estis v. TrabueSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. Knickerbocker Life Insurance v. PendletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
  3. Mason v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  4. Ex Parte SawyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
  5. Great Lakes Towing Co. v. Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1910

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc. v. AmiraultCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1953
  2. Kawasaki Zosensho of Kobe, Japan v. Cosulich Societa Triestina Di Navigazione of Trieste, ItalyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1926
  3. National Surety Co. v. Leflore CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1919
  4. American Baptist Home Mission Soc. v. BarnettCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1928
  5. Dixon v. HoweCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1918

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