Legal Opinion
The Republic
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 30, 1900PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
At about 6 a. m. of November 12, 1898, as the libelant’s steam canal boat Gamma, 96 feet long by 17| beam, *998was coming down the East river against the flood tide near the Brooklyn shore, she came in collision off the lower pier of the Catherine Street Ferry on the Brooklyn side, with the ferry boat Republic, which had crossed from the Few York side and was making her Brooklyn slip. The port bow of the ferry boat struck the starboard side of the Gamma about 25 feet from her stem, doing damage for which the above libel was filed.
The captain of the Gamma was intending to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- The City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- The ClintonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1899
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Hertz v. Consolidated Fisheries, Inc.District Court, N.D. California · 1952
- The William P. PalmerDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1919