Upper Delaware River Transp. Co. v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
This was a libel by John J. Sullivan, master of the barge or lighter Ellen Herron, against the steamer Columbia (The Upper Delaware River Transportation Company, claimants), to recover damages for injuries caused by the agitation of the water produced by the steamer in passing up the Delaware river. The district court rendered a decree for libelant. 55 Fed. 766.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
On the morning of September 14, 1891, at about 8 o’clock, the tug John Weir, with a tow astern consisting of three canal barges and the lighter Ellen Herron (the libelant), left Bordentown, N. J., and was proceeding down the Delaware river to Philadelphia, when she met the steamboat Columbia, passing up the river. The disturbance of the water occasioned by the steamboat produced a commotion of the tug and its tow of considerable violence, and caused the Ellen Herron to come in contact with the barge in front of her, and she sank in consequence. Although it was testified…
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