The Ganoga
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by the Red, Star Towing & Transportation Company against the steam tug Ganoga, the Uehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimant, with the boat Bessie, McWilliams Bros., Incorporated, claimant, impleaded. Decree for claimants, and libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
February 3, 1917, the tug Ganoga hung up a flotilla of eight light canal boats on a pile at the lower corner of the river end of the Gamecock Pier, Jersey City, to become a part of a larger tow to be subsequently taken to Perth Amboy. The master of the tug ordered the captain of the port hawser boat Bessie, which was nearest the pier, to make his line fast from her bow to the pile, and this was done; the eye- of one end of the line being- fast to the boat’s bitts, the other end, after passing around the pile, being brought back to the bitts and made fast. This is called a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McWilliams v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1913
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- The Theodore SmithDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1921
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