Kennedy v. Crane
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York to review a decree awarding to- the libelant the sum of $1,054.49, including interest, and $80.47 costs amounting in the aggregate to $1,134.95.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The libel was filed to recover for salvage, towage and repairs. The court awarded the libelant $1,054 for towing and for saving the barge Jupiter, chartered to the respondents, which, with a cargo of pyrites cinders, was frozen in at the Metal Works dock in the Hackensack river. The tugs Mary Ann and Emma *898J. Kennedy were employed to do the towing from the dock to New-town creek and had proceeded to a point in Newark Bay between the Behigh Valley and Jersey Central railroad bridges when the flotilla encountered a gale of wind. This was about February 1, 1908. The gale…
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