Dittmar v. Frederick Starr Contracting Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by William D. Dittmar, owner of the scow John J., against the Frederick Starr Contracting Company and the Elliot C. Bi-own Company. Decree for Jibelant for one-half damages.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
The libelant claims damages for injuries to a scow, the John J., which went ashore during the night of January 3, 1914, in Oyster Bay, N. Y., where it had previously been taken with a cargo of materials for the Elliot C. Brown Company, which was building a dock upon the property of one of the residents of the neighborhood.
The Brown Company had already removed the load, and had taken the scow away from the face of the dock to a mooring which was used by them for that purpose. It appears that two scows might be moored along the face of the dock, hut that the…
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