The Garden City
District Court, S.D. New York
On the thirteenth of December, 1883, while the ferry-boat Garden City was on one of her regular trips from Roosevelt street, New York, to Hunter’s point, a trip three and one-half miles in length, a fire was discovered in the “center-house,” near the smoke stack, when about opposite Market street. The boat was stopped as soon as possible, her engines were reversed, and in a few minutes she regained the end of her slip at Roosevelt street.
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On the thirteenth of December, 1883, while the ferry-boat Garden City was on one of her regular trips from Roosevelt street, New York, to Hunter’s point, a trip three and one-half miles in length, a fire was discovered in the “center-house,” near the smoke stack, when about opposite Market street. The boat was stopped as soon as possible, her engines were reversed, and in a few minutes she regained the end of her slip at Roosevelt street. The wind was strong from S. S. W., and the fire spread with such rapidity that several horses and trucks, with their harness and equipments, were destroyed.…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Without attempting to discuss minutely the several interesting and important questions presented by this case, I shall indicate, as briefly as possible, the reasons for the conclusions to which, after much consideration, I have come.
1. Although the Garden City, through hér connections with the Long Island Railroad Company, had some relations in her navigation to interstate commerce, these relations were slight and comparatively •unimportant. In the recent Case of Vessel Owners’ Towing Co., 26 Fed. Rep. 169, 170, it was assumed that the power of congress over the subject of limitation of…
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