Legal Opinion
Carlson v. United New York Sandy Hook Pilots' Ass'n
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 7, 1899PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Death claim. Pilot boat.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libel was filed by the administrator of Theodore Carlson, a seaman on the steam pilot boat New York, whose death is alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the mate of the New York in reversing the propeller, in consequence of which the yawl, in which the seaman had just launched, was caught and the two seamen in her killed. The accident occurred at about 10:30 p. m. of November 12, 1897, outside of Sandy Hook, and a little to the eastward of the easterly end of G-edney Channel.
The steam pilot boat New York ivas Í77 feet long, and built expressly for…
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