The Olympic
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 dismissing the libel of the owner of the steam tug O. L. Hallenbeck against the steamship Olympic, for damages sustained by the Hallenbeck’s coming into collision with the starboard propeller of the Olympic. The opinion of Judge Hazel will be'found in 221 Fed. 296.
1Opinion of the Court
EACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The Olympic was berthing on the north side of Pier 59, North River. The Hallenbeck was one of a flotilla of tugs engaged in assisting her to do so. The steamer’s bow was brought to the upper corner of Pier 59, her stern angling out into the river; the tide was ebb and the wind northeast. Some of the tugs took off-shore lines from her port quarter and hauled up river; when she had canted off sufficiently other tugs went under her starboard quarter to push her stern up river. The steamer assisted the operation in the usual way by going ahead with her port propeller and…
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