The Nassau
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Proceeding in admiralty by the United States against the ferryboat Nassau; the City of New York, claimant. Decree for respondent (182 Fed. 696), and the United States appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree dismissing a libel filed by the United States for a violation of section 4472, Rev. Stat. U. S. (U. S. Comp.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Proceeding in admiralty by the United States against the ferryboat Nassau; the City of New York, claimant. Decree for respondent (182 Fed. 696), and the United States appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree dismissing a libel filed by the United States for a violation of section 4472, Rev. Stat. U. S. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3050) which provides, amongst other things, that: “No loose hay, loose cotton or loose hemp, camphene, nitroglycerine, naphtha, benzine, benzole, coal oil, crude…
1Opinion of the CourtRacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The claimant appellee operates a ferry from the foot of Whitehall street, Manhattan, to the foot of Thirty-Ninth street, Brooklyn, and owns the strain ferryboat Nassau, which is used in the ferry service. Fare is charged those using the ferryboats, the rate varying with the use made —so much for a foot passenger, so much for vehicles of specified kinds and sizes, different rates being charged for loaded and for empty vehicles, and varying also with the number of horses drawing such vehicles. There are also specified rates for automobiles, for led horses or…
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