Ætna Ins. v. Converse
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
In this case, disaster came to the barge Zulu and her cargo by reason of her being in collision with the upper point of one of the piers of the Rocks Bridge in the Merrimac river, while she was in tow of the steam tug Cygnet bound down the river for Newburyport, and by reason of such collision the barge was capsized and her cargo lost. The only question is one of fact, and is whether the disaster was caused by the fault of the tug or by that of the barge.
The passage between the piers of the bridge is a narrow one, and the currents incident to the ebb and flow of the…
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