The Bronx
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit for collision by the Cornell Steamboat Company against the steam tug Bronx, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, claimant, with the ferryboat Queens, the City of New York, claimant, impleaded. Decree for libelant against both respondents, and the City appeals. Reversed as to appellant, and decree directed against the Bronx alone.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
March 4, 1916, at about 9 a. m., in clear weather, on a flood tide, the tug Rose with a loaded brick scow on two short hawsers, the tug Bronx with a loaded car float on her starboard side, and the tug White Ash with a barge on each side, were proceeding from the North River around the Battery into the East River; the Bronx overtaking the Rose and the White Ash. At the same time the ferryboat Queens was crossing the courses of these three tows from their starboard side, bound to her slip at the foot of Whitehall street, Battery, New -York, and a tug with a hawser tow was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- New York, L. E. & W. R. Co. v. The EiderDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1889
- Walsh v. Brooklyn & N. Y. Ferry Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1895
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