The Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon an appeal by the Ocean Steamship Company from a final decree of the District Court, Southern District of New York, which held both vessels in fault for a collision between the steam ferryboat Chicago and the steamship City of Augusta.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
On October 31, 1899, the ferryboat Chicago left her slip at Jersey City at 12 ¡47 a. m., bound for the upper slip at the foot of Cortland street, New York. The night was dark and overcast, the atmosphere free from fog or háze, the wind was from the northeast, and the tide at the last of the ebb, but still running strong. She followed her usual course, heading across the river for Starin’s Pier, just above her slip, intending when near the pier to head down artd pass in close to the lower corner. The Pan-i wood, a ferryboat of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was at…
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