Legal Opinion
New York Trap Rock Corp. v. Cornell Steamboat Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 28, 1934PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODDARD, District Judge.
This action was brought by the libelant, the New York Trap Rock Corporation, as charterer of the two deck scows Venus and the Empire No. 5, to recover damages sustained as a result of the scows breaking from their moorings at a dock at Rockland Lake Landing on the early morning of October 13, 1827, going adrift and fetching up against some ice breakers located nearby. The scows 'were each about 100 feet long and 40 feet wide and were light.
The respondent, the Cornell Steamboat Company, had been engaged by the libelant to tow the scows "which were then lying at…
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- The Mary EthelDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1923
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