Snare & Triest Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'1 statement of the case: ' The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant was engaged, under contract with the Government, in the work of constructing an extension to Piers Nos. 2 and 3 at League Island Navy Yard, near Philadelphia. In connection therewith it employed a derrick barge or lighter.
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The Reporters'1 statement of the case: ' The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant was engaged, under contract with the Government, in the work of constructing an extension to Piers Nos. 2 and 3 at League Island Navy Yard, near Philadelphia. In connection therewith it employed a derrick barge or lighter. On February 9, 1905, said barge was moored to Pier No. 2, near the end thereof, close to the stern of the U. S. S. Colorado, and adjacent to the work being done by claimants. II. Prior to the mooring of said barge, to wit, on January 10, 1905, the U. S. S.…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
This case comes here under a special jurisdictional act, as follows:
“AN ACT For the relief of Snare and. Triest Company.
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the Snare and Triest Company for reimbursement for loss and damage to barge, tools, and machinery, resulting from a collision with the U. S. S. Colorado on the night of February ninth, nineteen hundred and five, at the League Island Navy Yard, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction to hear and determine the…
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- The NellieDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1905
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