THE PRESIDENT MADISON

No. 8125.

91 F.2d 835 (1937)

THE PRESIDENT MADISON. AMERICAN MAIL LINE, Limited, v. SKAGIT RIVER NAVIGATION & TRADING CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

August 23, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, Lawrence Bogle, Cassius E. Gates, and Edward G. Dobrin, all of Seattle, Wash., for American Mail Line, Limited.

Kerr, McCord & Carey, Stephen V. Carey, and J. L. Collins, all of Seattle, Wash., for Skagit River Navigation & Trading Co.

C. E. H. Maloy, of Seattle, Wash., for Washington Tug & Barge Co., Tugs & Barges, Inc., H. F. Haines, and Petroleum Nav. Co., Inc.

Bayley & Croson and F. B. Fite, Jr., all of Seattle, Wash., for Northland Transp. Co.

Before WILBUR, GARRECHT, and DENMAN, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by American Mail Line, Limited, claimant of the steamship President Madison, from interlocutory and final decrees in libels brought against the vessel and her owners by Skagit River Navigation & Trading Company and others, adjudging that respondent American Mail Line is liable to appellees for damage done when the President Madison broke from her moorings in Seattle during a windstorm of unprecedented violence and drifted...

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