Legal Opinion
Corby v. Ramsdell
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 13, 1931No. 262PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The question before us is whether the respondents, owners of land under water on the easterly side of the Hudson river, should be held liable for damages sustained by libel-ant’s yacht Robaliss III as a result of her striking a submerged rock or roeks off Dennings Point while she was proceeding from New York City to Beacon.
The rocks were a part of an old stone abutment constructed by a railroad company on water lots which.it acquired from the state of New York prior to 1870. A series of these abutments extended out from the eastern shore of the Hudson connected…
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