Smith v. Havemeyer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Admiralty. On appeal from district court. 32 Fed. Rep. 844. Libel by Smith against Havemeycr and others for damages occasioned by an unsafe pier. Decree for libelant, and respondents appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the district court in favor of the libelant in a cause in personam for damages suffered by the barlcentine Formosa while lying at a pier in Brooklyn, of which the appellants were the occupants, and to which the vessel had proceeded at their invitation to discharge her cargo and deliver it to them. The Formosa was moored to the pier at flood tide, with her starboard side next the pier. Alter the tide began to fall she listed to port, away from the pier; and the starboard chocks, through which her two mooring hawsers passed, were torn out by the strain upon…
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