Rice v. Erie R.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by Jacob Rice, owner of the barge Mabel, against the Erie Railroad Company’s Barge No. 225, with the Hudson River Bluestone Company’s lighter Kingston and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company impleaded. Decree for libelant, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1Opinion of the Court
KNOX, District Judge.
On the afternoon of February 25, 1916, Erie Railroad barge 225 was the outside boat of a tier of two-or three other barges moored to the southerly side of Pier 4, Bush Docks, Brooklyn. Farther along the pier, and nearer to the bulkhead, there lay a flotilla of four barges; the outside boat being the Mabel.
While thus positioned, a Pennsylvania Railroad tug, having in tow the lighter Kingston, arrived at the pier and tied the newcomer alongside the 225. When this was done, the latter further secured her lines by. giving them an additional hitch from her bitts to -the boat…
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