Baker-Whiteley Coal Co. v. Neptune Nav. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, in Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
PURNELL, District Judge.
In June, 1900, the steamship Queen Wilhelmina, the Neptune Steam Navigation Company, Limited, owner, was lying in a slip or dock at Pier 32, Baltimore, Md., bows to the-mainland, stern to the open water, and another ship 100 or 150 feet astern, in the same dock. The Queen Wilhelmina had discharged her cargo, and it was desired to move her to Elevator No. 3 at Canton. For this purpose the steam tug Britannia, owned by the Baker-Whiteley Coal Company of West Virginia, the respondent below (appellant here), was employed. The Wilhelmina had no steam. She was a. steamship…
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