Manegold v. The E. A. Shores
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Libel in rem by Charles Manegold and others, owners of a cargo of wheat shipped on the propeller E. A. Shores, Jr., to recover for damages sustained by alleged negligent stranding of the vessel, and negligence after the stranding. The E. A. Shores, Jr., is a steam freighter, launched in the fall of 1892, and engaged in general service on the Great Lakes.
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Libel in rem by Charles Manegold and others, owners of a cargo of wheat shipped on the propeller E. A. Shores, Jr., to recover for damages sustained by alleged negligent stranding of the vessel, and negligence after the stranding. The E. A. Shores, Jr., is a steam freighter, launched in the fall of 1892, and engaged in general service on the Great Lakes. At the close of the season of 1894, she was laid up for the Avinter; • but before the usual opening of navigation, in the latter part of February, 1895, her owners made oral agreement with the libelants to carry wheat from Chicago to…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, District Judge
(after stating the case as above). The circumstances in this case and the peculiar questions involved have required the taking of a large amount of testimony, all heard in open court, and I have attempted only an outline of the general facts, and of the claims urged on behalf of the libelants, without aiming to summarize the evidence, which would unduly extend the opinion.
Primarily, the rule of liability must be ascertained which governs this contract of affreightment, — whether the provisions of section 3 of the act of congress of February 13, 1893, entitled “An act relating to navigation of…
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