Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit November 22, 1968, 25762 (Alamo Water Transportation Company v. United States)

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge:

This is an action by the United States brought under 33 U.S.C. § 408 to recover damages caused by the respondent’s barge’s overriding a navigational aid, a lighted buoy in the Texas City Channel. The district court, United States v. Tug Otto, 296 F.Supp. 1130, in finding for the government, found that the buoy had been made worthless.