Hanna Transit Co. v. Pittsburgh S. S. Co.
District Court, W.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Hanna Transit Company against the steamer Alexander McDougall and the barge W. Le Baron Jenney; the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, claimant,
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
The large freight steamer Howard M. Hanna, Jr., grounded on the late afternoon of October 12, 1916, at the head of Little Rapids Cut (a channel 300 feet wide) in St. Marys river, while downbound with a cargo of iron ore from Lake Superior to a Lake Erie port, owing, as the libel states, to crowding her over and obstructing her proper course by the steamer Alexander Mc-Dougall and her tow, the barge the W. Le Baron Jenney, upbound, and preventing her coming around into Little Rapids Cut under port *896I elm, causing her to fetch up on the easterly side of the channel at the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Lewis v. LoperU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio · 1893
- The George W. PeaveyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1910
- The John CraigDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1895
3Cited by1 opinion
- The Alexander McDougallCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922