Workman v. New York City
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. 'Workman, the libellant below, was the owner, on June 11, 1893, of the British barkentine Linda Park." On the date named, while the vessel was moored to a dock at pier 48 in the East River in New York City, she was struck and injured by the steam fire-boat New Yorker.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. 'Workman, the libellant below, was the owner, on June 11, 1893, of the British barkentine Linda Park." On the date named, while the vessel was moored to a dock at pier 48 in the East River in New York City, she was struck and injured by the steam fire-boat New Yorker. At the time of the collision the New Yorker was running into the slip between piers 48 and 49 for the purpose of getting near to another fire-boat which had shortly prior thereto safely entered the slip. Both the fire-boats had been called in order to aid in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
It is clearly deducible from the record that the courts below concurred in dismissing’ the libel as against the fire department of the city of New York, upon the contention made in the answer of the department that under the provisions of a named statute of the State of New York, the fire department of the city of New York was neither a corporation nor a quasi-cor poration, but was merely a department of the city. As no controversy is made respecting the correctness of the decree ift this particular, we dismiss this subject from view.
With reference to the decree rendered by both courts…
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