Verdon v. Brooklyn Heights R. Co.

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company is the lessee of a dock in South Brooklyn, extending some 400 feet westward into New York Bay; the slip upon the south side of the dock having a depth of 20 feet at the outer end, and shelving up to a mud bank at the head of the slip. The tide rises 5 or 6 feet in this locality. On Friday, the 29th of September, 1905, the Earl1 Hawley, a canal boat owned by the libelant, with a cargo of granite paving stones from Connecticut, in tow of a steam canal boat, the Arthur Bissell, reached the head of this slip, and after a few moments’…