Kohlsaat v. Parkersburg & Marietta Sand Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Huntington; Benjamin E. Keller, Judge. Action by the Parkersburg & Marietta Sand Company against John E. C. Kohlsaat and others, partners as C. Crane & Co. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs in error, defendants below, leased from defendant in error, plaintiff below, a certain derrick boat *284for the term from August 11, 1917, to the 31st of December of that year, when it was to be returned to the lessor at Parkersburg, W. Va., “in as good condition as the day received, less the usual wear and tear.” The boat was duly delivered to the lessees, who used the same in their lumber business at Brent, on the Kentucky side of the Ohio' river, some 10 miles above Cincinnati. Early in December the river was frozen over, and defendants tied the boat to the…
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