Diamond Coal & Coke Co. v. Iron City Sand Co.

The Diamond Coai & Coke Company owned, among others, barges Nos. 268, 254, 303, 274, 308, 265, 264, 285, and 269, which previous to the war had been used in delivering coal in the South and elsewhere. On account of an embargo during the war, they were not being used, and had been sent across the Monongahela river from the company’s plant and anchored to trees along its banks at Pittsburgh. On January 1, 1919, the river began to rise, and continued until 2 o’clock in the afternoon the following day, January 2, 1919, when the flood became so heavy that the barges broke loose. They pulled up the…