AMERICAN S. S. CO. v. INTERLAKE S. S. CO.

No. 11301.

194 F.2d 25 (1952)

AMERICAN S. S. CO. v. INTERLAKE S. S. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence E. Coffey, Buffalo, N. Y. (Richards & Coffey, Buffalo, N. Y., Leckie, McCreary, Schlitz, Hinslea & Petersilge, Cleveland, Ohio, Laurence E. Coffey, Buffalo, N. Y., Lucian Y. Ray, Cleveland, Ohio, James P. Heffernan, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), for appellant.

McAlister Marshall and Carl A. Schipfer, Cleveland, Ohio (Arter, Hadden, Wykoff & VanDuzer, Cleveland, Ohio, Carl A. Schipfer, McAlister Marshall, Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.

Before HICKS, Chief Judge, and SIMONS and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

These appeals grow out of a collision between two vessels proceeding in opposite directions at the westerly end of Lake Erie shortly after midnight on November 2, 1948 during heavy fog. The District Judge, after nine days of trial, careful analysis of the evidence and detailed findings of fact, concluded that both vessels were equally at fault and should equally share the damage. The owners of each vessel assert that the faults of the other...

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