Legal Opinion
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad v. Motorship Buko Maru
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 4, 1974No. 73-2123PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge.
These actions arose out of a collision on July 13, 1970, between the Japanese Motorship Buko Maru (Ship), owned by Sanko Steamship Co., Ltd. (Sanko), a Japanese corporation, and a single leaf Strauss Bascule Drawbridge owned and operated by the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company (Western Indiana) while the Ship was being assisted up the Calumet River from Lake Michigan to Lake Calumet by two tugs of the Great Lakes Towing Company (Towing Company). Western Indiana was in turn owned by five other railroads each of which owned 20 per cent of the stock of…
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