Legal Opinion
The Chicago
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 27, 1904PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
This action was brought by the Bowns Pattison Transportation Company, the owner of the canal boat Eliza, to recover the damages sustained through the sinking of that boat, with cargo of coal, on the 2nd day of March, 1904, by collision with the ferry boat Chicago, off the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s ferry slips, Jersey City. The tugs were brought in by petition. A dense fog prevailed at the time. The tide was flood.
The Eliza was the outer starboard boat of the 4th or 5th tier of a flotilla of 24 boats of the Reading Railroad Company, bound from Port Johnson to points…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Meus v. The OrangeDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1891
3Cited by3 opinions
- Adams v. CareyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1937
- New York Cent. R. v. City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1927
- The City of LowellDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1905