Wilmington & Pennsgrove Transp. Co. v. United States

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

By its libel a ferryboat, hereafter called “Harding,” charged the self-propelling, government dredge, hereafter called “Marshall,” with forcing it against a stone jetty as the two vessels attempted to pass each other. From a decree of the court below dismissing its libel, Harding appealed. On final analysis, the case resolves itself to narrow limits.

The disaster occurred on the Christiana river, where it flows at right angles into the Delaware. From Christiana’s north bank a stone jetty, curving toward the south, projects some two thousand feet into the Delaware. The…