Spencer v. The Dalles, P. & A. Navigation Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. Libel in admiralty by The Dalles, Portland & Astoria'Navigation Company, a corporation, against E. W. Spencer, claimant and owner of the steamer Charles R. Spencer, to recover damages suffered by the Dalles City, a steamboat owned by the libelant, in a collision with the Charles R. Spencer, on the Willamette river upon the 31st day of May, 1905. The District Court rendered a decree (178 Fed. 862)…
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. Libel in admiralty by The Dalles, Portland & Astoria'Navigation Company, a corporation, against E. W. Spencer, claimant and owner of the steamer Charles R. Spencer, to recover damages suffered by the Dalles City, a steamboat owned by the libelant, in a collision with the Charles R. Spencer, on the Willamette river upon the 31st day of May, 1905. The District Court rendered a decree (178 Fed. 862) for the libelant in the sum of $6,020.03, from which the respondent appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, District Judge.
This controversy grows out of a collision which occurred between two river steamboats, the Dalles City and the Charles R. Spencer, upon the Willamette river, a short distance above its mouth, on the 31st day of May, 1905. The boats were plying between Portland and The Dalles, and belonged to opposition lines which were aggressively competing for the passenger business of the two terminal cities and intermediate points along the Willamette, and Columbia rivers. The first to arrive at any place along the route where passengers were received secured the larger part of…
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