Homer Ramsdell Transportation Co. v. La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was an action at law, brought by the Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company, a corporation of New York, against the Compagnie Générale Transátlantique, a corporation of the Republic of France, to recover damages caused by the defendant’s steamship, the Bretagne, striking and injuring the plaintiff’s pier in New York harbor.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was an action at law, brought by the Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company, a corporation of New York, against the Compagnie Générale Transátlantique, a corporation of the Republic of France, to recover damages caused by the defendant’s steamship, the Bretagne, striking and injuring the plaintiff’s pier in New York harbor. The answer alleged, among other things, <£ that at the time of the said collision the said steamship La Bretagne was in the command, and her movements and navigation entirely under the orders and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The question whether the statutes of the State of New York impose compulsory pilotage on foreign vessels inward and outward bound to and from the port of New York by way of Sandy Hook depends, as both counsel admit, upon the true construction of the provisions which are copied in the margin. 1
The statute of 1857, c. 243, reenacted' in the statute of 1882, c. 410, §2119, after providing how the master of a vessel sailing under a coasting license to or from the port of New York by the way of Sandy Hook, “ desirous of piloting his own vessel,” may obtain a license for such purpose from the…
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