The Fayette Brown
District Court, N.D. Ohio
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the Saginaw Bay Transportation Company, as owner of the barge Bottsford, against the steamer Fayette Brown and Pittsburgh. Steamship Company, brought in by the claimant of the Brown. Decree against the Brown.
1Opinion of the Court
DAY, District Judge.
This action arose out of a collision between the steamer Fayette Brown and the barge Bottsford about 10 o’clock on October 29, 1906, a short distance below the locks of the Soo. Both vessels were down bound; the Bottsford laden with lumber, and the Brown with ore. The Bottsford and her towing steamer, the Leuty, also owned by the libelant, locked through ahead of the Brown, and on coming out of the lock the Leuty took the Bottsford alongside on her starboard side and endeavored to dock at the coal dock known as Kemp’s Dock on the American side of the river. The Brown…
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- Mitchell Transp. Co. v. ChisholmCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1892
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- The Captain SamDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1902
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