Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Co. v. Chero Cola Co., 271 U.S. 19 (1926)

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Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Company v.


Chero Cola Bottling Company
No. 127


Argued January 13, 1926
Decided April 12, 1926
271 U.S. 19

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA

Syllabus

A wharfboat, in a river, used as an office, warehouse, and wharf, but not used or capable of use as a means of transportation, held not a "vessel " within the law allowing limitation of liability. Rev.Stats. § 4283; Act of June 19, 1886, 24 Stat. 79. P. 22.

Affirmed.

Appeal from a decree of the district court dismissing, for want of jurisdiction, a petition in admiralty for limitation of liability.