Legal Opinion
Williams v. Norfolk, Baltimore & Carolina Line, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 6, 1936No. 4055PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
About 7 p. m. on October 21, 1935, at ebb tide on a clear fine evening, a collision took place off Coal Pier No. 1 at Lambert Point in the lower part of the Norfolk Harbor, between the motor vessel Pawtucket and the barge Fell Loveland then in tow of the tug Cyrene. The Pawtucket is a freight vessel 149.8 feet long by 28.8 feet beam. She was bound for Baltimore and was proceeding in a northwesterly direction on the eastern side of the 750-foot dredged channel, followed at a distance of approximately 250 yards by the Old Bay Line steamer, President Warfield, a much larger…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- The PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- The Victory & the PlymothianSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- The NorfolkDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1924
- Pennsylvania R. v. New York, N. H. & H. R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
- The Lowell M. PalmerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
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3Cited by7 opinions
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