The Smedley
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by Ned Irish and J. B. Irish, co-partners trading as Irish Bros., owners of the coal boat Macy, against the barge Smedley, the Powelton Barge Company, claimant, with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company impleaded.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
In September, 1907, the coal boat Macy was moored at the dock at Staten Island, not far distant from the coal chutes maintained by the respondent the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. The Macy had been under the chutes, and had taken aboard about 150 tons of coal, when the loading was temporarily discontinued and she was moved away by the employes of the Rapid Transit Company to a point farther up the pier, in order to permit the barge Smedley to load. After the Smedley was loaded, she was hauled past the Macy by a line on a manually operated winch, and in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hartt v. The N. B. StarbuckDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1887
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