Anderson v. Columbia Contract Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah.: Calvin U. Gantenbein, Judge. Department 1. • The Columbia Contract Company, an Oregon corporation having its principal office in Portland, appealed from a judgment for $1,050 which Peter Anderson obtained against it, for damages done to his fish-trap by the company’s towboat and barges. Anderson owned a pound net fish-trap on the Washington side of the Columbia Eiver.
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From Multnomah.: Calvin U. Gantenbein, Judge. Department 1. • The Columbia Contract Company, an Oregon corporation having its principal office in Portland, appealed from a judgment for $1,050 which Peter Anderson obtained against it, for damages done to his fish-trap by the company’s towboat and barges. Anderson owned a pound net fish-trap on the Washington side of the Columbia Eiver. The waters of the river are affected by the ebb and flow of the ocean tides at the place where the trap is located. The fish-trap was constructed by driving piling into the bed of the river and attaching web or…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The foregoing statement may be summarized by saying that the defendant attempted to navi*179gate the river at a time when, it was so foggy that one could not see ahead and the range lights ceased to he an aid to navigation; that the defendant left Bugby Hole with the intention of following the usual course taken by vessels across Puget Bar and past the Anderson trap; that the towboat and barges were successfully navigated across Puget Bar; that the river is between 2.000 feet and a mile wide, at the point where the Anderson trap is located; that between 500 and 4,000 feet of that width opposite…
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