Holmes v. City of New York

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel for salvage. There was a fire on Pier No. 46, East River, in the city of New York, which started in tho middle of the night in some paper and refuse. A wind was blowing from the northwest, which blew the burning paper on the scow Robert J., which lay at the bulkhead and along the south side of tho pier, and sot tho scow on fire. The dumper D. S. C. T., belonging to the city of New York, lay further out on the south side of the same pier, with two hatches open. Some of the burning refuse was blown by the wind on the deck of the dumper, and also…