The Toledo
District Court, D. New Jersey
In Admiralty. Suit by the Postal Telegraph Cable Company against the dredge Toledo. On exceptions to libel. Exceptions to libel based upon ground that injury to a cable laid upon the bottom of the waters of Kill von Kull, and attached to the land on each side of the Kill von Kull, is not an admiralty and maritime tort.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, District Judge.
Libelant instituted proceedings in the above-stated cause against the dredge Toledo, her tackle, etc., for the recovery of damages alleged to have been done on the 8th day of July, 1916, by the dredge Toledo to a submarine telegraphic cable laid on the bottom under the waters of the Kill von Kull from the shore at Elizabeth, N. J., to the shore at Staten Island, N. Y. The injury is alleged to have been done about 200 feet from the New Jersey shore, at a point admittedly in the tidal and navigable waters of the United States, “at a place where the jurisdiction of…
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