The Myrtie M. Ross
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan.. This is an appeal from a decree in a salvage case. The Myrtie M. Ross, a small steamer trading between Lake Erie and Detroit and St. Clair river ports, owned by appellant, laden with coal, was sunk during a gale November 19, 1900, in Lake Erie, about a mile and a balf from the channel toward the Canadian shore.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan.. This is an appeal from a decree in a salvage case. The Myrtie M. Ross, a small steamer trading between Lake Erie and Detroit and St. Clair river ports, owned by appellant, laden with coal, was sunk during a gale November 19, 1900, in Lake Erie, about a mile and a balf from the channel toward the Canadian shore. The appellee, McMorran, doing business under the name of the “Port Huron Wrecking Company,” owned a wrecking steamer, the Groh, at Port Huron, together with several pontoons; one Dieffenbach…
1Opinion of the CourtKnappen, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Rule 11 of the Circuit Court of Appeals (150 Eed. xxvii, 79 C. C. A. xxvii) requires the appellant, in assigning the errors, to “set out separately and particularly each error asserted and intended to be urged.” Under the repeated decisions of this court, and of others of the Courts of Appeals the assignments of errors presented are too vague and indefinite to comply with this rule. P. P. Mast & Co. v. Superior Drill Co., 154 Fed. 45, 50, 83 C. C. A. 157; Deering Harvester Co. v. Kelly, 103 Fed. 261, 43 C. C. A. 225; McFarland v. Golling, 76 Fed. 23, 22 C.…
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