Legal Opinion
The Republic No. 5
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 20, 1942No. 16155Published
1Opinion of the Court
GALSTON, District Judge.
On December 16, 1940 the motor tug Republic No. 5, with a loaded tank barge, was bound in the vicinity of Hell Gate eastward to Whitestone, Long Island. At the same time the steam tug Mars, with a light barge Manor on her port side and a light barge Winsor on her starboard side, was heading westward from the vicinity of the New York, New Haven & Hartford bridge. Both tows were proceeding through Hell Gate and came into collision. The collision is variously placed by the respective parties as somewhere between the railroad bridge and Triborough Bridge, spanning Hell…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Baltic Sea States S. S. Line v. The Russell No. 4District Court, S.D. New York · 1940