Slater Fireproof Storage Co. v. Nicholson Transit Co.

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The suit was in admiralty, brought by li-belants against the city of Chicago and the appellant, Slater Fireproof Storage Company, to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned to libelants’ wooden steamer Fel-loweraft because of defective condition of the municipal pier at Chicago at that part of the pier which had been leased by the city to appellant. It is alleged in the libel, and there was evidence to show, and the court found, that several feet below the water there projected beyond the face of the pier, in some eases as much as eleven inches, the tie rods…