Sawyer v. Oakman
District Court, D. Massachusetts
[This was a libel by Charles Sawyer and others against Samuel Oakman and others to recover damages for injury sustained by libellants’ boat.]
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
The libellants are the owners of the schooner Bowdoin, and the respondents own a wharf and dock at Charlestown. In October last, the schooner, loaded with a full cargo of coal, arrived in port consigned to the respondents, and at the request of the latter, made fast at one of the piers of the wharf, and awaited for some days the discharge of two other vessels which had an earlier right to the berth. On Saturday, the master attempted to haul into the dock, which was then clear, but failed, and did haul in, at high tide, in the afternoon of Sunday. On Monday morning it…
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- Garfield & Proctor Coal Co. v. Rockland-Rockport Lime Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Barber v. . Abendroth Bros.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Smith v. BurnettCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1897