Legal Opinion
The Frederick M. Wilson
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 15, 1874No. Case No. 5,078PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
This action is brought by the owners of an oil-scow to recover the damages caused by a collision which occurred in the East river on the 20th day of August, 1873. The oil-scow was one of a class of vessels used in transporting petroleum oil in built about the harbor of New York. She was sixty feet long, twenty-two feet wide, and contained 23,630 gallons of oil in bulk, equally distributed in twelve tanks. This scow was being towed from the North to the East river by the steamtug Frederick M. Wilson, upon two hawsers some ninety feet long, the tide being strong flood…
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