Legal Opinion
Scott v. Cornell Steamboat Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 22, 1894PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Libel for collision. Decree for libelant.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libel was fded to recover damages caused by an alleged collision about 8 or 9 o’clock A. M. on Sunday, the 18th of June, 1893, between the libelant’s canal boat Favorite and the canal boat Petrie, both loaded with ice, and both a part of a flotilla of boats in tow of the respondents’ tugs, coming down the Hudson river. Both boats were outside boats, on the port side of the third and fourth tiers, the Petrie being about 32 feet ahead of the Favorite. These boats had been taken into the tow on Saturday, the day previous. During the following night the Petrie,…
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