Monongahela River Consol. Coal & Coke Co. v. Schinnerer
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United Stales for the Western District of Tennessee. Suits in admiralty by Mrs. Bessie Schinnerer and by Mrs. Emma ITurst against the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company and the Huntington & St. Louis Towboat Company. Decrees for libelants, and respondents appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The decedents of the respective ap-pellees were drowned in the Mississippi river, near Memphis, as the result of a collision between the molor'boat in which they were riding and a tow of the steamer Enterprise, owned by the defendant Coal & Coke Company, and operated by the defendant Towboat Company. Under separate proceedings in personam, in admiralty, heard together by the district judge, without a jury, decrees, each in the sum of $10,000, were entered in favor of the respective libelants, against both defendants, on account of the respective deaths. From these…
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