Legal Opinion
City of Chicago v. M/v Morgan, Kindra Lake Towing, L.P., and Kindra Lake Towing, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 9, 2004No. 03-1789PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
The M/V Morgan, a tugboat pushing four barges, abided 1 with the 95th Street Bridge in Chicago, Illinois. The impact disabled the bridge, severing eight of its ten electrical cables. A suit by the City followed. The district court, applying the Oregon presumption of fault against a moving vessel which strikes a stationary object, The Oregon, 158 U.S. 186, 15 S.Ct. 804, 39 L.Ed. 943 (1895), found the M/V Morgan presumptively at fault based on its negligent reaction to a mechanical failure but also held the City partially liable for the allision for failing to adequately…
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