Soule v. The Aller
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libel by Enos C. Soule and others against the tsteamship Aller and the steam tug America for collision. Decree against tlie Aller, and dismissing tlie libel as to the America.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
Between 9 and 10 o’clock in the morning of April 4, 1893, as the North German Lloyd steamship Aller was proceeding out to sea. she came in collision, when between Governor’s and Bedloe's islands, with the libelant’s bark, Enos Soule, causing damages, for which the above libel was tiled.
The tide was flood. The bark had previously been at anchor. The tug America, not long before the collision, had come on the bark's port side, to lake her in tow. For the purpose of assisting in raising her anchor and getting her under way, the tug had turned tin; bark around through the…
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