J. T. Morgan Lumber Co. v. West Kentucky Coal Co.

EVANS, District Judge.

The court finds the facts in this case to be as follows: The libelant, which manufactures and sells lumber, had a large raft of logs moored in the Tennessee river not far from its junction with the Ohio. A very rapid rise in the Tennessee put the raft in peril, and made it necessary that it should be promptly removed, and on February 20, 1909, .the libelant contracted with the respondent to make the removal with its steamer Harth at the usual price of $2.50 per hour for the time consumed in the work. Though the libelant asserts to the contrary, there was in fact no…