The Aurora
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Libels by the Wright & Cobb Lighterage Company against the steam tug Aurora, her engines, etc., the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimant, and hy Owen J. McWilliams and others against the steam tug Leonard J. Busby, her engines, etc., the Wright & Cobb Lighterage Company, claimant, in which the steam tug Aurora and the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimant, were…
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Libels by the Wright & Cobb Lighterage Company against the steam tug Aurora, her engines, etc., the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimant, and hy Owen J. McWilliams and others against the steam tug Leonard J. Busby, her engines, etc., the Wright & Cobb Lighterage Company, claimant, in which the steam tug Aurora and the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimant, were im-pleaded. From an adverse decree, the Wright & Cobb Lighterage Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
Wright & Cobb Lighterage Company appeals from decrees entered in these proceedings.
On April 1, 1917, at 2 a. m., in the Kill von Kull, a collision occurred between the barge Blue Coat, the port boat in the fifth or last tier of the Aurora’s tow, bound west with the flood tide, and the lighter Prince. The lighter was the outside boat of two, towed stern first, on the port side of the tug Leonard J. Busby. The Busby had the derrick lighter Luna on her starboard side and was navigating east against the tide. Both the Prince and the C. G. Mueller of the Aurora’s tow were…
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