The Edwin Terry
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of tlie United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Court, Southern District of New York (145 Ned. 837), holding- the tugs liable for injury to the boat W. T. Lewis, which the tug Terry had in tow; said injury being caused by floating ice, which struck the boat on the port corner of her bow and knocked out a plank.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The accident happened on January 30, 1905, when there was much floating ice in the Hudson river. The Lewis, recently loaded there with coal, lay in the slip at Edgewater, N. J., and was bound for Havemeyer’s Sugar Refinery in Williams-burgli. She and others were engaged in supplying the refinery with coal from the Edgewater docks. It appears that on the day in question the refinery had a supply sufficient to last for two or three days, but the tugboat owners were not notified that such was the case, nor was there any objection made to taking the boats in tow. Both…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The LyndhurstCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1906
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- Reilly v. Cornell Steamboat Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
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