NIEPERT v. CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY

No. 12883.

241 F.2d 916 (1957)

Carl NIEPERT, an Individual and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Niepert, Deceased, Appellant, v. The CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

March 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred D. Shapiro, Cleveland, Ohio, Theodore T. Sindell (of Sindell, Sindell & Bourne), Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant.

George I. Meisel (of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey), Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and ALLEN and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges.


ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of a libel instituted against defendant for wrongful death of libelant's wife and for damage to libelant's motor boat alleged to have been caused by the negligence of respondent in creating a hazard to navigation by extending a pier over 1,200 feet into Lake Erie without adequate lighting.1 The findings of fact of the District Court, which the parties...

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