Legal Opinion
The Nicholson
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided October 18, 1886PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Action in rem, against tug and tow, by the owners of a vessel moored in a river.
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
The libel in this action is filed by John Wimett, the owner of the canal-boat E. Webb Potter, against the schooner Elizabeth A. Nicholson and the steam tug James Adams, alleging that on *890the evening of September 8, 1885, a collision, occasioned by their negligence, occurred between the schooner and the canal-boat, by which the latter received serious injury. The Adams is a large and powerful harbor tug. The Nicholson is a three-masted schooner, with a capacity of 650 tons, carrying a square sail, square topsail, and top-gallant sail on her foremast.
On the evening in question the Potter lay…
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