Legal Opinion
The Janice
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 16, 1936No. 14198Published
1Opinion of the Court
GALSTON, District Judge.
On the morning of December 29, 1933, the scow Janice was lying at the foot of Dyckman Street Ferry. The previous day, having been unloaded at the Interboro Dock of 600 yards of crushed stone, she was found to be in good condition. She was then towed by the Cornell No. 21 to Dyckman street, Hudson river, to await an up-bound tow. At about 6:15 a. m. the tug Cornell No. 20 arrived at Dyckman street to take the Janice and place her in the up-bound tow of another Cornell tug, the No. 41. The Janice was taken from the dock on short port and starboard hawsers about 25 feet…