Dangelo v. John W. Danforth Co.
District Court, W.D. New York
In Admiralty. Ribel by Nina Dangelo, administratrix, against the John W. Danforth Company and others. This is a libel in, personam to recover damages against the John W. Dan-forth Company, Benjamin L. Cowles, and the O. H. Starke Dredging Company for negligently causing Hie death of Nicolo Dangelo by the capsizing of a mud scow on September 1(>, 1910, in Buffalo Harbor near the north entrance to the river.
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In Admiralty. Ribel by Nina Dangelo, administratrix, against the John W. Danforth Company and others. This is a libel in, personam to recover damages against the John W. Dan-forth Company, Benjamin L. Cowles, and the O. H. Starke Dredging Company for negligently causing Hie death of Nicolo Dangelo by the capsizing of a mud scow on September 1(>, 1910, in Buffalo Harbor near the north entrance to the river. The material facts are as follows: The Danforth Company was engaged in making excavations on land near the Evans slip in the city of Buffalo and the dóbris was loaded by its workmen onto a…
1Opinion of the CourtHazel, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] Libelant’s contention is that the respondents are joint tort-feasors, and that each owed the deceased a positive duty irrespective of their duties toward each other; that the Danforth Company was negligent in having failed to provide the deceased with a safe- and suitable place in which to work, in that the scow leaked, was overloaded, and generally unseaworthy; that the respondent Cowles was negligent in that the master of the tug towing the scow should have perceived her un-seaworthy and unfit condition; and that the Starke Dredging Company, the owner…
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- The DrewDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1884
- Blumquist v. Snare & Triest Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
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