Burr v. Knickerbocker Steam Towage Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine. In Admiralty. Suit against tug for injury of tow by grounding.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
We are of the opinion that the grounding of the four-masted schooner Mary Manning on the westerly shore of the Penobscot river about two miles below Bangor, August 20, 1900, was through the fault of the steam tug Seguin.
The Seguin undertook to move the schooner from the American Ice Company’s wharf on the westerly shore of the river, and to tow her up the river some 1,400 or 1,500 feet, to a place where the channel was wider, and there to turn her, preparatory to her departure on her voyage. The schooner had an outside berth at the wharf; the schooner Charles A. Campbell…
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