Legal Opinion

The Crown of Galicia

District Court, E.D. New York

Decided October 16, 1914Published

In Admiralty. Suit for collision by Harry Cossey against the steamship Crown of Galicia, the Crown Steamship Company, IJmit-ed, claimant, and the tugs M. Moran and Helen B. Moran, the Moran Towing & Transportation Company, claimant, with cross-libel by the Crown Steamship Company against the tugs, Dry Dock Section No. 6, Harry Cossey, claimant, and others.

1Opinion of the Court

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

District Judge. The Erie Basin is a private property, used for wharfage purposes by vessels placed, at the direction of die owners of the property, in berths numbered and designated upon maps of the property according to location and size. The entrance is called the Gap, and is shown by the testimony to be 196 feet in width, between substantially parallel walls. The wall upon the north side is about one-third the length of that upon the south side, and the relative shape and location can be seen best from tire following dia-

The steamship Crown of Galicia was taken…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Partridge v. The Margaret J. SanfordDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1886

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