Legal Opinion
The Rockland & Rockport Lime Co. No. 1
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 5, 1910PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Suit by the McCaldin Bros. Company and another against the barge Rockland & Rockport Rime Co. No. 1.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
The barge in question, worth $35,-000, with a cargo of coal valued at $5,500, upon the 8th day of February, 1908, was imprisoned in the ice at a slip in Brooklyn, and during the night of the following day was carried by the ice floes *525slowly down through the Narrows. The barge had two anchors, which would have held her under ordinary conditions, upon a considerable length of chain, and when the ice floes reached the deej) water of the Narrows, her drift, with the ebb tide, became much more rapid, so that upon Monday morning, February 10th, between approximately 7 and…
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