The Sunnyside
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by R. M. Bates, Jr., owner of the motorboat Rita, against the Cornell Steamboat Company, with the barges Sunnyside, A. C. McClellan, and J, S. Nolan impleaded, William W. Aldrich and others, claimants, and the barge Intrepid impleaded, the Simmons Transportation Company, claimant. ’Decree for libelant against the Intrepid, Sunnyside, McClellan, and…
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by R. M. Bates, Jr., owner of the motorboat Rita, against the Cornell Steamboat Company, with the barges Sunnyside, A. C. McClellan, and J, S. Nolan impleaded, William W. Aldrich and others, claimants, and the barge Intrepid impleaded, the Simmons Transportation Company, claimant. ’Decree for libelant against the Intrepid, Sunnyside, McClellan, and Nolan, and the latter appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
October IS, 1910, at about 8:30 a. m., the tug John D. Cordts, belonging to the Steamboat Company, started with a hawser tow consisting of 21 boats from its stakeboat in the North River, hound upstream. The boats were of irregular sizes, and some were loaded and some light. The wind being from the northwest, the light boats were properly put on the port side of the tow to protect *272the loaded boats on the starboard side, and two loaded boats were hung on outside of the line of boats behind the 'starboard hawser boat; that is, there were no boats in front of them and their…
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