Legal Opinion
McKie Lighter Company v. City of Boston
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 30, 1971No. Civ. A. 71-2671PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.
This case arises from the complaint of a tug owner seeking an injunction to require the City of Boston to open regularly its swing bridge over navigable waters so that the owner may reach his berth.
For many years McKie Lighter Company has operated a fleet of tugs and other vessels customarily moored at a pier adjacent to the bank of the Fort Point Channel inland of the Northern Avenue Bridge. The City of Boston owns and since 1905 has operated, with the authority of the United States, that swing bridge which spans the navigable waters of the Fort Point…
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- Khedivial Line, S.A.E. v. Seafarers' International Union, International Longshoremen's AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Streckfus Steamers, Inc. v. Mayor & Aldermen of VicksburgCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- Lewis v. BauneCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
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- Pino v. Protection Maritime Ins. Co., Ltd.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1978