Legal Opinion
The Albany
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided December 12, 1898PublishedCited by 1 opinion
This was a libel for collision by the Central Stock-Yard & Transit Company against the steam ferryboat Albany.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
The ferryboat Albany, on the 9th day of March, 1896, at about 8 o’clock- a. m., left her slip at Weehawken, N. J., on the west side of the North river, bound for Franklin street, New York, on the opposite side, distant about 5 miles from the place of starting. The river, is about 2,800 feet in width between such termini. Fog had interrupted navigation for several hours, but had cleared sufficiently to justify navigation. Having attained her usual course, which was about 300 feet to the westward of the heads of the piers on the New York side, the course being laid to the…
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