Legal Opinion
The Columbia
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 6, 1927PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, District Judge.
Both liability and the right to limit are questioned in the case at bar.
This is a suit in admiralty .to recover damages for the death of John-Moore, engineer on the ferryboat Columbia, owned and operated by the petitioner. The Columbia carried a crew of five men, consisting of the master, two deckhands, engineer, and fireman, and made frequent trips between New York and Brooklyn.
The method of lighting the boat, which had been pursued since 1885 or 1886, required the use of what was called a g'as bag. This consisted of a circular tank of steel 3% feet high and 8 feet…
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