Fosbinder v. The Owego
District Court, N.D. New York
These were libels by Horace Fosbinder and tbe Union Marine Insurance Company against tbe steamer Owego, to recover damages resulting from a collision of tbe Owego witb libelants’ canal-boat. Tbe steamer Chicago and tbe tugs Townsend Davis and W. I. Babcock were subsequently brought in by petition of tbe Owego.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
On tbe evening of October 2, 1893, tbe steamer Owego, partly loaded and beaded up stream, was lying at tbe Erie Railway dock in Buffalo harbor. Tbe steamer Chicago was at tbe same time, lying at tbe Central dock, beaded down stream, her bow just reaching to tbe northerly side of Cincinnati street. Tbe canal-boat W. A. Hedden was lying at tbe Kellogg Elevator loaded witb grain. At about 9:15 tbe Owego, in charge of tbe tugs Babcock and Davis, proceeded, stem foremost, down tbe river, bound for Chicago. When tbe stern of tbe Owego reached a point about opposite amidships of…
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