Legal Opinion

Pittman v. The Samuel Marshall

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided February 6, 1893No. 38PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. In Admiralty. Libel by James E. Pittman and others against the steam barge Samuel Marshall (Edward Smith and other's, claimants) for supplies. The district court dismissed the libel. 49 Fed. Eep. 754. Libelants appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

TAFT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court for the eastern district of Michigan in admiralty, dismissing a libel against the steam barge Samuel Marshall. The libelants were a firm of coal merchants doing business in Detroit, Mich. The Samuel Marshall was a steam barge enrolled at Buffalo, Y. The libel alleged that she was a foreign vessel, wholly owned by persons residing at Buffalo; that at the several times during the year 1890, mentioned in the schedule of coal deliveries attached to the libel, while the vessel was lying at the port of Detroit, the master…

2Cases cited2 opinions

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  2. The IllinoisDistrict Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1879

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