Steamer Avalon Co. v. Hubbard S. S. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First-Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Steamer Avalon Company against the American steamer General Hubbard; Hubbard Steamship Company, claimant. Decree for libelant, from which it appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
[1] About midnight July 24, 1916, the steamer General Hubbard, of the value of $465,000, carrying a cargo of lumber of the value of about $16,000, broke her crank shaft when proceeding southward along the Oregon coast, about 14 miles from Cape Meares. She sent up rockets to attract the attention of the lighthouse keeper at the cape, so that a steam tug might be sent out, whereby a request might be telephoned to the owners at Astoria, to send out a tugboat from Astoria. The steamer Avalon, valued at $200,000, carrying but 20 or 30 tons of cargo, proceeding northward on a…
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