The S. V. Luckenbach
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals frbm the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by Lorentz W. Hansen, managing owner of the steamship Otta, against the steamship S. V. Luckenbach, Edgar F. Luckenbach, and others, claimants, and cross-libel by such claimants against the Otta. Decree dividing the damages, and libelant appeals.
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Appeals frbm the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by Lorentz W. Hansen, managing owner of the steamship Otta, against the steamship S. V. Luckenbach, Edgar F. Luckenbach, and others, claimants, and cross-libel by such claimants against the Otta. Decree dividing the damages, and libelant appeals. On appeal by Lorentz W. Hansen, libelant, managing owner of the steamship Otta from a decree holding the Otta and the Luckenbach both at fault for a collision which occurred during á fog, in the upper Bay of New York at or near…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge,
[ 1 ] On April 4, 1910, between 1 and. 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the steamship Luckenbach from Porto Rico was proceeding up the harbor of New York destined for Pier 26, Brooklyn. She is 400 feet long and 41 feet beam and was loaded at the time of the collision, her draft being about 24% feet. The weather was foggy and the tide flood!; the set of the tide was, how- ‘ ever, somewhat counteracted by a North River freshet prevailing at the time.
The Luckenbach left quarantine at 12:50, the fog growing somewhat thicker as she proceeded. The story of the collision as told by…
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