The Mackinaw
District Court, D. Oregon
In Admiralty. On exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
On November 17,1907, the steamer Mackinaw was lying at anchor at the Irving dock, a short distance south of the landing of the steam ferry W. S- Mason, operated by the city of Portland and Multnomah county between the east and west banks of the Willamette river. While the libelant was standing upon one of the pontoons of the approaches used by the ferry, the Mackinaw changed her berth by hacking downstream, and the libel alleges that she negligently allowed her anchor to drag along the bottom of the river, resulting in the anchor fouling the ferry cable, whereby the…
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