Interlake S. S. Co. v. Great Lakes Transit Corp.

RIPPEY, District Judge.

These actions arose out of a collision between the steamer P. E. Crowley, owned by the Great Lakes Transit 'Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New York, and the steamer Arcturus, owned by the Interlake Steamship Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, at about 5:15 a. m., June 9, 1934, within and near the south line of the channel leading from Lake Erie into the harbor at Erie, Pa.

The channel through which vessels must pass to reach Erie Harbor extends in a southwesterly direction from the lake entrance.…