Great Lakes Towing Co. v. Shenango S. S. & Transp. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Suit in admiralty for collision by the Shenango Steamship & Transportation Company, owner of the steamer Shenango, against the Great Lakes Towing Company, owner of the tugs Reidenbach and Sunol, and the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, owner of the steamer Rensselaer.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Suit in admiralty for collision by the Shenango Steamship & Transportation Company, owner of the steamer Shenango, against the Great Lakes Towing Company, owner of the tugs Reidenbach and Sunol, and the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, owner of the steamer Rensselaer. Petition of 1he Pittsburgh Steamship Company against the Great Lakes Towing Company, and cross-libel of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company against the Shenango' Steamship & Transportation Company.…
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLISTER, District Judge.
The ultimate question involved is upon whom the responsibility rests for injuries to the steamers Shenango and Rensselaer, growing out of collisions in the harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, resulting from maneuvers in which these vessels and the tugs Reidenbach and Sunol were engaged at about 9:30 p. m., July 25, 1910.
*482The harbor at Ashtabula is of artificial construction, and, because of its breakwaters and the projection of docks into the harbor, affords a restricted area within which large vessels may maneuver. The inserted diagram, following the government chart, with…
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