Legal Opinion
The Lyndhurst
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 24, 1906No. 207PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The cause comes here upon appeal from a decree holding the steamtug Lyndhurst responsible for damages done to her tow, the canal boat Philip Rafferty, which on March 13, 1897, was in collision with a car float lying at the pier foot of Gansevoort street, North river. The opinion in the District Court will be found in 129 Fed. 843.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The District Judge thus briefly sets forth the circumstances of the collision:
“The boat [the Rafferty] had been lying stern out, light, outside of two other boats fastened on the upper side of Thirteenth Street [Pier] and was taken in tow there, about 7 o’clock in the morning by the tug, to be towed to Edgewater, N. J., for a load of coal, on a hawser, furnished by the tug and leading from her stem. [The tug had a barge on each side and therefore backed into the slip between 13th and 14th streets to pick up the canal boat.] The loop of the hawser was put by the master…
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