The Rockaway
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Suit in admiralty by Bannie Barnes against the ferryboat Rockaway, the Ferries Company, claimant, and the tug Richard F. Young, Henry Crew, claimant. Decree for libelant against both vessels, and claimants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
The appellee, Bannie Barnes, a passenger on the ferryboat Rockaway, plying between Norfolk and Portsmouth, was injured in a collision between the ferryboat and the steam tug Richard F. Young, which occurred just after the former started from her Norfolk slip. Prior to the accident the tug had been lying, bow upstream, at Campbell’s Wharf, which nearly adjoins the ferry slip, with another tug and a carfloat between her and the wharf. To permit the carfloat to be taken elsewhere, the Young moved out into and up the stream a short distance, and then turned about to go back…
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