The D. S. Gregory
District Court, S.D. New York
On the morning of Sunday, the 16th of September, I860, the steam ferryboat D. S. Gregory, a vessel belonging to the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, and plying regularly across the Hudson river, as a ferryboat, from a slip at the foot of Montgomery street, in Jersey City, in the state of New Jersey, to a slip at the foot of Desbrosses street, in the city of New York, left her slip on the New Jersey side, about twenty minutes past 10 o’clock a. m., with the…
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On the morning of Sunday, the 16th of September, I860, the steam ferryboat D. S. Gregory, a vessel belonging to the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, and plying regularly across the Hudson river, as a ferryboat, from a slip at the foot of Montgomery street, in Jersey City, in the state of New Jersey, to a slip at the foot of Desbrosses street, in the city of New York, left her slip on the New Jersey side, about twenty minutes past 10 o’clock a. m., with the libellant, Ann Cavan, on board, as a passenger, bound for her slip on the New York side. The libellant was on her way to…
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
This collision occurred in open day, and in clear-' weather, and when there was nothing to interfere with the power of vision or the capacity of manoeuvring on the part of either boat The first fault was on the part of the George Washington. ‘ The testimony is, that, after she had left the dock at Christopher street, which was at pier 50, and was on her way down, at a speed of about twelve miles an hour, and at a distance out from the ends of the piers of about two hundred yards, and had reached a point about off the foot of Spring and Canal streets, between piers…
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- The New YorkDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1891
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