Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. P. Sanford Ross, Inc.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Postal Telegraph Cable Company against P. Sanford Ross, Incorporated.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIEED, District Judge.
[1] The libelant alleges, and the proof upon the trial shows, that a dredge of the respondent, operating in the Arthur Kill, between Staten Island and New Jersey, broke apart and dragged from its place several hundred feet of insulated telegraph cable which the libelant maintained across the Kill at that point. The dredge was then working toward the south from the Baltimore & Ohio Bridge, and operated by carrying out and dropping a heavy anchor, some hundred feet to the south, toward which, as the dredge excavated the bottom of the channel, progress would gradually…
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