Bank Line Ltd. v. Texas Co. (Panama) Inc.

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a final decree in admiralty whi,ch dismissed a libel after trial to the court in October, 1956.

*330The incident giving rise to this litigation occurred on February 23,1951 in the Suez Canal. It is Canal practice that ships wishing to enter the Canal from either end shall form in convoys and begin their trips at scheduled times. Since the bypasses presently in use had not in 1951 come into operation, when two convoys coming in opposite directions were to pass each other the ships of the southbound convoy pulled over and moored on the western bank of the…