Pool Shipping Co. v. United States

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This is a libel for collision brought by a moored vessel against one moving in the Houston Ship Channel.

The facts in this case are that the steamship Kirkpool, on July 2,1928, moored without lights or lookout at Sprunts dock in the city of Houston. At that time there was another vessel at the dock, leaving insufficient room for the Kirkpool to moor inside the dock, so that her stem was permitted to project from 50 to 65 feet upstream. The other vessel moved later, leaving plenty of space at the stem of the Kirkpool, but notwithstanding she did not fall back alongside…