Legal Opinion
The Robert H. Cook
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided May 23, 1928PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COOPER, District Judge.
These two cases were tried together, as they arose out of the same accident. Libelant sues for damage to his two canal boats Miller and Matton, which are alleged to have suffered injury on May 20, 1925, because of the negligence of the tug Robert H. Cook while they, with other boats, were being towed by the tug on Labe Champlain, from Whitehall, N. Y., to Quebec, Canada.
The channel of Lake Champlain from Whitehall to the deep waters of the lake is narrow and very tortuous, ranging from 75 or 100 feet to about 200 feet in width. These two boats were part of a tow of 31…
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