Robinson v. Detroit & C. Steam Nav. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeals from tlie District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. These are appeals from decrees of the district court of the United States for the Eastern district of Michigan in admiralty, dismissing one libel in rem against the steamer City of Mackinaw and two libels in personam against the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, the owner of the steamer City of Mackinaw, for damages, arising out of a collision which occurred on the Detroit…
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Appeals from tlie District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. These are appeals from decrees of the district court of the United States for the Eastern district of Michigan in admiralty, dismissing one libel in rem against the steamer City of Mackinaw and two libels in personam against the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, the owner of the steamer City of Mackinaw, for damages, arising out of a collision which occurred on the Detroit river between 10 minutes after 10 and 15 minutes after 10, central standard time, on the night of May 2S, 1892, between…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Rev. St. § 4238, provides rules for preventing collisions on the water in navigation' of vessels of the navy and of the mercantile marine of the United States; and, although subsequent acts have been passed which relate to the navigation by such vessels upon the high seas and in all coast waters of the United States, section 4233 is still in force as to navigation in the harbors, lakes, and inland waters of the United States, and the merchant marine of the United States *887on the Detroit river are therefore governed by this section of the Revised Statutes. The…
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