DAMPSKIBSSELSKABET ATALANTA A/S v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

At about 2:30 a. m. on April 24, 1926, the steamship Sierra Leona collided with two ápur dikes extending a distance of 1,700 feet from the west bank of Southwest Pass, in the Mississippi river, and damaged them. The United States brought an action at law against the Dampskibsselskabet Atalanta A/S, a Danish corporation, owner of the vessel, against the Associated Branch Pilots of the Port of New Orleans, and against Edmond Breen, a member of the said association, who at the time was employed in piloting the vessel, to recover damages alleged to be $3,717.62. In general…