Legal Opinion
Sinram Bros. v. Reading Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 5, 1937No. A-14921PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GALSTON, District Judge.
On January 29, 1936, following a well-known usage or custom in harbor towage, the barge Sterling, then lying at Ninety-Sixth street, was reported light to the Reading Company. The Reading Company’s tug took the barge at Ninety-Sixth street, East River, and towed it to the respondent’s stakeboat in upper New York Bay. From the stakeboat the barge was taken by another of the respondent’s tugs on hawsers to Port Reading and tied to the light stakes, arriving at Port Reading at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon of January 30.
According to Christofen, master of the barge,…
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