The Bordentown
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Petition for limitation of liability.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
On the night of November 24 to 25, 1888, tbe steam-tug Bordentown, assisted by the Winnie, having in tow a fleet of about 20 canal-boats, bound from South Amboy, through the Kills, to the sea fence, Brooklyn, encountered, on leaving the Kills, a heavy north-east gale, in which all but two of the boats were lost. Large claims for damages having been presented against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the petitioners, as owners of the tugs, charging that the loss was occasioned through negligence, a libel and petition were filed in Ibis court to limit the liability of the company for the…
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