St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimants are the parties referred to as “the legal or equitable owners or claimants of the steam towboat Future City, her barges in tow, cargoes thereon, freight and personal effects contained in them” in the act entitled, “An act granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the towboat Future City, her barges, cargoes, and so forth;”…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimants are the parties referred to as “the legal or equitable owners or claimants of the steam towboat Future City, her barges in tow, cargoes thereon, freight and personal effects contained in them” in the act entitled, “An act granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the towboat Future City, her barges, cargoes, and so forth;” approved August 3,1894. (28 Stat. L., p. 219.) II. The claimant is and was at all times hereinafter mentioned a corporation…
1Opinion of the CourtHowuv, J.
This suit has its origin in a marine collision, or a series of collisions, on the navigable waters of the Mississippi Biver, in the port of New Orleans, between towboats propelled by a steamer called the Future City, belonging to the plaintiff company, and war vessels belonging to the United States. The gravamen of the action is the negligence of the naval officers in command of the vessels, and damages' are claimed for the total loss and destruction of two of the towboats and for the amount expended in repairing a third barge as the result of the collision, and also for the amount of the…
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