Woodberry v. The Josephine B.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District 'Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. Libels for collision by Horace W. Woodberry and others., owners of the schooner Maud, against the steam lighter Josephine B. and the-steam tug Arrow, and by James McAllister, owner of the Josephine B., against the Arrow and the Maud.
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Appeals from the District 'Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. Libels for collision by Horace W. Woodberry and others., owners of the schooner Maud, against the steam lighter Josephine B. and the-steam tug Arrow, and by James McAllister, owner of the Josephine B., against the Arrow and the Maud. The collision happened in Hell Gate, East river, in the afternoon of June 12, 1890, between the Maud, in tow of the Arrow on a hawser, bound east, and the Josephine B. bound west. Both boats were damaged, and each libeled the other and the tug Arrow. The…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
When the master of the lighter first sighted the tug the former was- just below Negro Point, and the latter had just come around Hallett’s Point, both, as he says, near the center of the channel. The Northam, a large passenger steamboat, bound for New Haven, came around Hallett’s Point immediately after the Arrow and Maud, and overtook them on their starboard side, keeping well over to the Long Island shore. The Josephine B. passed to the starboard side of the Arrow and the port side of the Northam, and had barely cleared the latter, when she came in collision with the…
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