The S. A. Carpenter
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the Erie Railroad Company against the schooner S. A. Carpenter, George A. Colgan, Jr., claimant, and cross-libel by George A. Colgan, Jr., against the ferryboat Tuxedo.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIEDD, District Judge.
On the morning of April 14, 1917, the two-masted schooner S. A. Carpenter took a deckload of coal on board at the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western pier just south of the Hoboken ferry on the west side of the Hudson river. The Carpenter was intending to take this coal around the Battery and up the East River to one of the bays on the north side of Long Island. A strong ebb tide was running, and whatever wind was blowing came from the northwest. The Carpenter was under a reefed mainsail, foresail, and jib, and worked out into the river sufficiently to turn downstream,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The BreakwaterSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- The Bouker No. 2Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918
- The M. MoranCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918