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Lehigh Val. Transp. Co. v. Miller

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided December 4, 1893No. 99PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. In Admiralty. Libel by John A. Miller and others against the steamer Cayuga (the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimants) for collision. Decree for libelants. Claimants appeal. Statement by SEVEREMS, District Judge: On the 28th day of April, 1890, the propeller D. M. Wilson, with her consort.

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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. In Admiralty. Libel by John A. Miller and others against the steamer Cayuga (the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimants) for collision. Decree for libelants. Claimants appeal. Statement by SEVEREMS, District Judge: On the 28th day of April, 1890, the propeller D. M. Wilson, with her consort. (lie barge Manitowoc, both being then owned and employed by the libelants, was proceeding on a voyage from Kelly’s island to Duluth under charter for a cargo of wheat to be carried from the latter place to…

1Opinion of the Court

SEYEREYS, District Judge,

(after stating the facts.) 1. The commissioner omitted to find any conclusion of law or fact involved in the proof before him, in regard to the effect of the instrument in writing executed in behalf of the libelants on June 21, 1890, conceiving the proper coarse to he to report the proof, and leave the detennination thereon to he made by the court; and, while there is no express adjudication by the court in regard to the construction and effect which ought to he given to it, it is manifest from the decree that the court must have held that the only effect which could…

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