Legal Opinion
Oil Transfer Corp. v. Westchester Ferry Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 6, 1958PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, Circuit Judge.
For convenience I shall call the libellant’s tug the “Oil Tug”, the respondent’s ferry, the “Ferry”, and the tug libelled in rem, the “Matton”. The libellant’s barge I shall call the “Newark” and the barge, chartered by the libellant, the “105”. The libellant made up a tow in the Staten Island Kills on January 27, 1954, making fast the “Newark” alongside the port side of the “105”, so that their bows were nearly abreast of each other. However, since the “105” was about 230 feet long and the “Newark” was considerably shorter, her stern wa well forward of the stern…
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