Kenny v. Cornell Steamboat Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by William Kenny against the steam tug W. H. Baldwin; the Cornell Steamboat Company, claimant. Decree for libelant, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
The W. H. Baldwin, a steam tug, was employed to tow the barge Kenny Girls, with a cargo of sand, to the Biirden Iron Company dock at Troy, N. Y. ' The barge was about 15-years old, with square ends, 109 feet long, and 28 feet broad, and 14-feet deep. She was loaded with 500 tons of sand and was made up in a tow in New York. At about 10 a. m. on July 26, 1917, she reached a point about 500 feet - below the Burden Company’s dock, and then the steam tug W. H. Baldwin took her out of the tow, making the barge fast with three lines on the tug’s starboard side. This was an…
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