The Thode Fagelund
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Court, Southern District of New York, holding the steamship Thode Fagelund solely responsible for damages sustained by libelant’s barge U. H. Pflug, through being crushed by the steamship as the latter entered the slip between Pier 36 and Commercial (or Commerce) Wharf, Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn.
1Opinion of the Court
LAOOMBF, Circuit Judge.
The'tide in the river was flood (though there was no tide in the basin) and a wind o.f from 25 to 30 miles an hour was blowing practically straight into the gap which leads from the river into the basin.’ Commerce Wharf runs along the further side of the basin, and Commerce street runs down to it at a place directly opposite the gap. From the sides of the basin, right and left there run out six piers, three on each side; between these and between the inner pair of piers and Commerce Wharf are slips for the accommodation of vessels. Between the heads o'f the piers is the…
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