The Atlas
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
[On appeal from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of New York.] [In admiralty. Libel in rem by the Phoenix Insurance Company, insurers of the cargo of the canal boat A. E. Hurd, against the steamboat Atlas, her engines, etc., the Camden & Amboy Railroad & Transportation Company, claimants.] This suit was brought in the district court, against the steamboat Atlas, to recover for the damages sustained by the loss of a boat in tow of the steam tug…
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[On appeal from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of New York.] [In admiralty. Libel in rem by the Phoenix Insurance Company, insurers of the cargo of the canal boat A. E. Hurd, against the steamboat Atlas, her engines, etc., the Camden & Amboy Railroad & Transportation Company, claimants.] This suit was brought in the district court, against the steamboat Atlas, to recover for the damages sustained by the loss of a boat in tow of the steam tug Kate, through a collision between such boat and the Atlas. That court held both the Kate and the Atlas to be in fault…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
Without going into the detail of the evidence in this case, it must suffice to say, that the negligence and mismanagement of the persons navigating the tugboat Kate are fully established. On the testimony of the witnesses called from her by the libelants, that mismanagement was so gross as to admit of no excuse or palliation. Her own seamen, as well as the master of one of her tows, prove, that, putting out from New Brighton on Staten island, bound westwardly, up the Kills, she had crossed diagonally towards the New Jersey side, and had passed the middle of the Kills,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- The" Virginia Ehrman" and The" Agnese"Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Gray v. Philadelphia & R. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1885
- Riedemann v. The GalileoU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1886
- The AtlasDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1870
- The Charles AllenDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1882
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- The HudsonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1883