New Jersey Lighterage Co. v. E. A. Packer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Admiralty. Libel for collision. Decree for libelant. This was a suit in admiralty, instituted by the New Jersey Lighterage Company, owner of the barge Atlanta, against the steam-tug Dr. John Wolverton, which had the Atlanta in tow, and also against the steam-tug E. A. Packer, to recover damages for a collision between the Atlanta and a barge lashed along-side and in tow of the Packer on her port side, known as “Cross Creek Barge No. 5,” which occurred in the afternoon of…
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In Admiralty. Libel for collision. Decree for libelant. This was a suit in admiralty, instituted by the New Jersey Lighterage Company, owner of the barge Atlanta, against the steam-tug Dr. John Wolverton, which had the Atlanta in tow, and also against the steam-tug E. A. Packer, to recover damages for a collision between the Atlanta and a barge lashed along-side and in tow of the Packer on her port side, known as “Cross Creek Barge No. 5,” which occurred in the afternoon of October 25, 1880, near the mouth of the East river, in the harbor of New York. Service never having been obtained upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Wallace, Circuit Judge.
The decree formerly made in this case, adjudging the libelant entitled to recover against the Packer for the damages sustained by the collision between the libelant’s barge Atlanta and the barge in tow of the Packer, having been reversed by the supreme court upon appeal, because this court refused to make a finding of fact which that court, upon the evidence before it, thought the appellant entitled to, the case is now here for a redetermination. Nothing was decided by the supreme court authoritatively, except that, upon the evidence before it, the appellant, the owner…
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