People's Coal Co. v. Second Pool Coal Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suit by the People’s Coal Company against the Second Pool Coal Company.
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, District Judge.
This is a libel in personam to recover damages for injuries to a steamboat, owned by the libelant, as a result of a collision with a sunken flat in the channel of the Allegheny river at Pittsburg. It appears that on March 15, 1907, a flatboat owned by the Diamond Coal Company and marked “Diamond Coal Company No. 33,” being then partially loaded with coal and moored to a float of the respondent in the river at the foot of Thirty-First street, was permitted by the respondent to become separated from the float and to be carried by the current to a point near the foot of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Winpenny v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
- Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co. v. MunsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
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- Eastern Transp. Co. v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1928
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