Legal Opinion
O'Brien v. The Whiteash
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 26, 1894PublishedCited by 4 opinions
This was a libel by Patrick O’Brien against the steam tugs Whiteash and Winnie for damages by collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN. District Judge.
On the 15th of May, 1894, at about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, the libelant’s canal boat J. O. De Freest, in tow of the tug Winnie, and on her port side, in going up the East river, when a little above the bridge, came in collision with a railroad float on the starboard side of the sleamtug Whiteash, which was also bound up the East river. The De Freest sustained some damages, to recover which the above libel was filed against the Whiteash. The Winnie; was brought in as a party defendant on the petition of the owners of the Whiteash, under the fifty-ninth rule of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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