The Dora Allison
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by E. E. Whitney, as master of the barkentine Stranger, against the schooner Dora Allison and against Thomas Cook in personam.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
[1] I find from the evidence in this case that the bowsprit and jibboom of the schooner Dora Allison pro-j ecting across the mouth of the slip of Hieronymus Docks, where she was moored, some .30 or 40 feet, was a menace to vessels going in and out of said slip, and that it was an obstruction to navigation—at least, very hazardous to take another vessel out of the slip under the circumstances. I find that said schooner was improperly moored, in violation of rule 1, Harbor Rules, etc., in reference to unrigging of the jibboom when at anchor or moored. I therefore…
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