Doherty v. Pennsylvania R.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Eibels by Mary F. Doherty, owner of the barge Hercules, and by Mary F. Doherty and William Doherty, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Decrees for libelants (261 Fed. 529), and respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
These cases were tried together, and on appeal were heard together in this court, and now will be determined together in one opinion.
The libelant Mary E. Doherty was and is the owner.of the barge Hercules, and the respondent was and is the owner of various steam tugs engaged in towing vessels between New York and South Am-boy, N. J. It is complained that in April, 1917, the respondent agreed to safely tow the Hercules from New York to South Amboy, there to load the barge with a cargo of coal and then tow tire same back to New York City, and that all shiftings of the…
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