Legal Opinion
National Motorship Corp. v. Pennsylvania R.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 26, 1947No. 172, Docket 20475PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company appeals from an interlocutory decree in the admiralty, holding it solely liable for a collision in New York Harbor off the Battery upon a clear afternoon on Christmas Day, 1944. The railroad’s tug, “Chester,” was rounding the Battery, bound up the East River with a railroad float on her port hand; the collision was between the starboard corner of the float and the starboard bow of the motor vessel, “Clevelander,” which was coming down the East River, also rounding the Battery, and bound for Edgewater, New Jersey. The testimony was, as…
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