The Lackawanna
District Court, W.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Davidson Steamship Company, owner of the barge Chieftain, against the steamer Lackawanna, the Buffalo Transit Company, claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
On September 18, 1909, shortly after 11 o’clock in the forenoon, the. freight steamer Lackawanna, 270 feet in length, beam 40 feet, laden with flour and copper, collided in St. Clair river with the barge Chieftain, which, with another barge in her wake, was being-towed by the steamer Shenandoah, upbound, on a voyage from Lake Erie to Duluth. The steamer Lackawanna was downbound. Near the rapids at the upper end of the river, she blew a passing signal to the Shenandoah, which was promptly answered; both steamers continuing on their courses and passing starboard to…
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