Meyer v. Pennsylvania R.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought to recover the damages, amounting to $112.64, suffered by the libellants, through their barge, the John H. Meyer, Jr., being injured at South Amboy, on the 23rd and 24th of November, 1901. The boat first lay at the respondent’s wharf, known, as the Old Steamboat Pier, and the libellants allege negligence on the respondent’s part in causing her to be moved by the tug Winnie, to the New Steamboat Pier, which it is alleged was an unsafe and dangerous berth, and placed on the outside of a number of boats there.

The respondent denies the moving by it…