Davidson S. S. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This was an action by the United States against the Davidson Steamship-Company for damages to a breakwater at Agate Bay, Two Harbors, Minn., alleged to have been caused by the negligent management of a vessel of that company. At the mouth of the bay and as breakwaters for the harbor two-piers extend towards each other from the opposite shores.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This was an action by the United States against the Davidson Steamship-Company for damages to a breakwater at Agate Bay, Two Harbors, Minn., alleged to have been caused by the negligent management of a vessel of that company. At the mouth of the bay and as breakwaters for the harbor two-piers extend towards each other from the opposite shores. Between the ends of these breakwaters is the entrance to the harbor. Prior to the year 1900 the-one from the east shore ran westward into the lake for a distance of about…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
The government called McAvoy, the master of the vessel, for cross-examination as an adverse witness, claiming authority to do so under a Minnesota statute which provides that a party to the record in a civil’ action may so call and cross-examine an adverse party, or if such adverse party is a corporation then its “directors, officers, superintendent,, or managing agents” and that the party calling for such examination shall not be concluded thereby but may rebut it by- counter testimony. Gen. St. 1894, § 5659. Counsel for the defendant merely said: “We object to that.” The objection was…
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