The Ancon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Rib el filed by George I. Forsyth and others against the steamship Ancon, her engines, etc.; the Panama Railroad, Company, Claimant. Decree dismissing the libel. Ribelants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
[1] The Ancon, loaded with cargo of a gross tonnage of 9,332 tons, length 489 feet 5 inches, breadth 58 feet, depth 28 feet 9 inches, horse power 4,000, a twin screw passenger steamer, on the 27th of December, 1908, was moving to Pier 6, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City, at about 7:22 a. m., with the tide being about high, water slack, and turning ebb in the Buttermilk Channel. The steamship backed out of her slip, and was assisted by the steam tugs Arthur Kill, Hiawatha, Robert Palmer, and A. W. Mills, and the libelant’s Juniata. The Juniata was 91 feet in…
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