The Willie
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern' District of New York. Suit in admiralty by the ¿Etna Insurance Company and Tony Ross against the Borough Development Company, impleaded with the steam tug Willie and the scoW Thomas Connell. Decree against the Borough Development Company alone, and it appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The Borough Development Company is a corporation engaged in the business of transporting ashes and other refuse for the city of New York., and has a dump at the foot of Fulton street, Brooklyn, where it loads scows for that purpose. May 15, 1913, the scow Thomas Connell was lying loaded under the dumpboard with the light scow Ward A outside of her. One Curran, the Borough Development Company’s foreman, ordered the tug Willie to wind the scows around so as to put the Ward A under the dumpboard with the scow Connell outside of her. As this was being done the load on the…
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