Legal Opinion
The Reba
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 10, 1884PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
On the morning of the eighth of March, 1881, the canal-boat J. C. Heath, owned by the libelants, was discharging coal along the southerly side of the pier at the foot of Fifty-first street. The slip was filled with drift-ice, which was somewhat frozen together the night previous. The schooner Manhattan, desiring to obtain a berth inside of the canal-boat, employed the steam-tug Reba to take her in. The tug first broke up the ice in the slip to some extent, then took the schooner upon her port side and towed her slowly into place ahead of the canal-boat, proceeding in a somewhat diagonal…
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