Jolivet v. City of Seattle
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit by Charles Jolivet, trading as the French--American Shipping Company, against the City of Seattle. On exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
NETKRE.K, District Judge.
Libelant seeks to recover the value of 250 tons of coal alleged to have been lost by the explosion of a scow of dynamite, through the negligence of the defendant city, through its age-ut. the. port warden, in removing, without the consent or knowl*964edge of libelant, the scow containing the coal from buoy No. 2 of the Puget Sound Harbor at Seattle, where it was moored with the port warden’s permission, to buoy No. 5 in said harbor, in close proximity to a barge containing about 15 tons of highly explosive dynamite.. Libelant pleads Ordinance No. 34,379 of the city of…
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