The C. H. Northam
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Petition for limitation of liability by Thomas Butler and others, as owners of the steamer C. H. Northam. On questions of petitioners’ privity or knowledge, and their liability for damage to claimants.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, District Judge.
The petitioners had placed their steamr ship C. H. Northam on the beach which lies- north of. Wood Island Park and east of the Revere Beach and Eynn Railroad bridge at' East Boston, and were engaged in dismantling her there. On the night of Wednesday, November 6, 1907,, during a storm' accompanied by a high tide and heavy wind, she floated, broke from her' moorings, and drifted in a northerly direction across the bay or cove which lies ber tween Wood Island Park and that part of East Boston called Harbor' View, until she grounded at the- latter place. A quantity of…
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