The Pere Marquette 18
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In Admiralty. In the matter of petition of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, as owner of the car ferry steamer Pere Marquette 18, for limitation of liability: On exceptions to answers. The xietitioner, Pere Marquette Railroad Company, has filed a libel and petition, alleging its ownershix) of a car ferry steamer Pere Marquette IS, a duly, enrolled and licensed merchant vessel employed in navigation upon the Great Lakes.
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In Admiralty. In the matter of petition of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, as owner of the car ferry steamer Pere Marquette 18, for limitation of liability: On exceptions to answers. The xietitioner, Pere Marquette Railroad Company, has filed a libel and petition, alleging its ownershix) of a car ferry steamer Pere Marquette IS, a duly, enrolled and licensed merchant vessel employed in navigation upon the Great Lakes. On September 9, 1910, while on a voyage between the ports of Ludington, Mich., and Milwaukee, Wis., she met with disaster, sank, and with her cargo became a total loss, out…
1Opinion of the CourtGeiger, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [11 ■ The first exception relates to the right of claimants to answer the petition without having filed a claim with the commissioner. Upon this, the fifty-sixth rule in admiralty (29 Sup. Ct. xlvi) seems decisive:
“In the proceeding aforesaid, the said owner or owners shall be at liberty to contest Ms or their liability, or the liability of said ship or vessel for said embezzlement, loss, destruction, damage or injury (independently of the limitation of liability claimed under said act), provided that, in his or their libel or petition, he or they shall…
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