Ripley v. Boards of Chosen Freeholders

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

The plaintiff’s vessel, in navigating the Passaic, came in collision with the draw of the bridge over the river at the foot of Bridge street, in the city of Newark. The proof was that the space between the two piers over which the draw swung was fifty-five feet; that at the time in question the draw was opened so far as only to afford, for the passage of plaintiff’s vessel, a space of from eighteen to twenty-four feet; and that the shrouds of the vessel, in the attempt to pass through, were caught on the end of the draw, causing considerable…