The Frank T. Heffelfinger
District Court, W.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the United States, as owner of the lighthouse tender Crocus, against the steamer Frank T. Heffelfinger, the Peavey Steamship Company, claimant; the tugs Conneaut and W. G. Mason being impleaded.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
The freight steamship Frank T. Heffelfinger, 450 feet over all, by 50 feet beam, struck' the lighthouse tender ■Crocus at midnight on May 11, 1909, while the former was being assisted out of Evans slip across Buffalo river to the Philadelphia & Reading coal dock by the steam tug Conneaut. The Evans slip is 70 feet wide and adjoins the river. There was an approximate distance of 390 feet from the entrance thereto to the opposite bank of Buffalo river, where the Crocus was moored in the government slip with her stern projecting out about 5 feet into the river, and a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The W. G. MasonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
- Winslow v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1904
- Rebstock v. Gilchrist Transp. Co.District Court, W.D. New York · 1904
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