Legal Opinion
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. Three Tugs
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 23, 1894PublishedCited by 8 opinions
In Admiralty. Libels and cross libels for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BBOWN, District Judge.
The first three libels above named were filed by the owners of the derrick Alfred to recover damages sustained by the derrick from three separate collisions with the steam tugs above named, a,ll happening in the course of about two hours, between half past 7 and half past 9 A. M., on May 17, 1893, while the derrick was at anchor a little way above the Brooklyn bridge, and olí pier 40, in the East river, over the sunken wreck Emma, which it was there engaged in raising.
The width of the East river in that locality is about 1,350 feet from pier to pier. It is the narrowest,…
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