Grand Island S. S. Co. v. Canada S. S. Lines, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan; Arthur J. Tuttle, Judge. Libel by the Grand Island Steamship Company, owner of the steamer Choctaw, against the Canada Steamship Lines, Limited, owner of the steamship Wahcondah. From a decree dividing damages, the libelant appeals. On July 12, 1915, the steamers Ohociaw and Wahcondah were in collision in a fog in Lake Huron, near Presque Isle.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan; Arthur J. Tuttle, Judge. Libel by the Grand Island Steamship Company, owner of the steamer Choctaw, against the Canada Steamship Lines, Limited, owner of the steamship Wahcondah. From a decree dividing damages, the libelant appeals. On July 12, 1915, the steamers Ohociaw and Wahcondah were in collision in a fog in Lake Huron, near Presque Isle. The Choctaw was sunk; the Wahcondah considerably, though not vitally, damaged. The owners of the Choctaw libeled the Wahcondah, alleging that she was running at…
1Opinion of the CourtDenison, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] 'The contention chiefly urged by the Choctaw is that the trial court had no right to resort to these logs, or to draw from them the inference which he did, or to give to that inference the effect which he gave it, to overturn' the direct testimony of the witnesses. We are not prepared to say that there was error in resorting to these logs. It is, of course, to be conceded that, as bearing on the truth of a master's testimony that he had checked in a fog at a particular time, it would be irrelevant to show that he did not check in a certain fog on some…
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