Great Lakes Towing Co. v. St. Joseph-Chicago S. S. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Libel and petition by the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company for limitation of liability, in which the Great Lakes Towing Company and others file claims. From a decree denying the motion of the Great Lakes Towing Company that its claim be decreed a preferred and first lien, it appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
On July 24, 1915, the steamship Eastland, owned by the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company, of S't. Joseph, Mich., and chartered to and operated by the Indiana Transportation Company, capsized and sank in the Chicago river. Many passengers were drowned and others injured.
Three days later the Great Lakes Towing Company, appellant, contracted with the steamship company “to raise and deliver -said steamer, righted and pumped out, to a dock in the vicinity of where she now lies, for $34,500; no cure, no pay.” Appellant’s undertaking was fully performed.
This cause was begun…
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