Pioneer S. S. Co. v. Deming

MACK, Circuit Judge.

The Maumee Straight Channel extends out about ten miles from the harbor front of Toledo, Ohio, to the navigable waters of Lake Erie, and is an artificially dredged channel, some 400 feet wide, cut through the shallow waters of Maumee Bay. Vessels traveling in and out of the harbor necessarily must navigate within this confined channel, and a series of rules regulating such navigation has, pursuant to statute, been promulgated by the Secretary of War. Act of August 18, 1894, c. 299, § 4, 28 Stat. 362, as amended by the Act of June 13, 1902, c. 1079, § 11, 32 Stat. 374, and…