Doherty v. Pennsylvania R.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libels by Mary F. Doherty, owner of the barge Hercules, and by Mary F. Doherty and William H. Doherty, owners of the barge Frances Doherty, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIEED, District Judge.
These libels have arisen from injuries received on the night of April 5, 1917, by the barge Frances Doherty and the barge Hercules, during a severe windstorm which began late in the afternoon of that day and increased in severity as night came on. In the morning the wind had been blowing from the west. During the day it shifted, and around 4 o’clock in the afternoon it set in strongly from the east, and then more toward the southeast, so that during the early part of the night the full strength of the wind swept across the lower New York Bay and through Raritan Bay,…
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