The Catawissa
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. These causes come here upon appeals from decrees of the District Court, Southern District, of New York, holding the steam tug Catawissa solely in fault for a collision between the barge Silver Brook in tow of the Catawissa and the barge Marine in tow of the Cheektowaga.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. These causes come here upon appeals from decrees of the District Court, Southern District, of New York, holding the steam tug Catawissa solely in fault for a collision between the barge Silver Brook in tow of the Catawissa and the barge Marine in tow of the Cheektowaga. The Cheektowaga with three barges in tow abreast on two hawsers was proceeding from the sound through Hell Gate to the westward. Somewhere in the vicinity of Negro Point Bluff, at about 5:20 a. m., the port hawser parted, whereupon,…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
Concededly the width of the Cheektowaga and the barges, as they lay at anchor, including their clear*16anees, was 130 feet. The distance of the Cheektowaga from the shore is variously estimated at from 100 to 180 feet. The chart shows that to eastward and to westward of Negro Point Bluff the shore recedes somewhat. The amount of navigable channel left for the Catawissa, which after she had rounded Negro Point on that tide would have to go on, depends on the location of the Cheektowaga’s flotilla. Two or three hundred feet to eastward or westward would malee the open water…
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