Roney v. New York, S. & W. R.

HANNING, District Judge.

On January 7, 1903, the schooner Harry Landell arrived at the coal docks at Edgewater, N. J., on the western sliore of the Hudson river, for a cargo of coal to be delivered at Groton, Conn. She was tied up at the docks on the lower side of pier No. 2, waiting for her load, until Saturday, January 17th. About 5 o’clock on the afternoon of that day she was taken across the slip, about 100 feet in width, from the lower side of pier No. 2 to the outermost chute but one on the upper side of pier No. 1. The loading of the scho'oner was immediately commenced, and it was…