Reiss S. S. Co. v. Great Lakes Towing Co.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The owner of the steamer Otto M. Reiss has taken this appeal to reverse a decree in Admiralty which dismissed its claim against the Tug Massachusetts for damage done the steamer in a marine accident which occurred within the Duluth-Superior Harbor on August 29, 1944. Before commencing the movement in which the accident occurred the steamer, loaded with wheat and fully manned, with steam up, was in the Great Northern Elevator Slip headed in, port side to the dock, with -her stern between six and seven hundred feet from the opening of the slip into the adjacent St.…