Brigham v. John F. Schmadeke, Inc.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by Henry R. Brigham and William H. Brigham, trading as Brigham Bros., against John F. Schmadeke, Incorporated, with John Morton’s Sons Company impleaded.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATEIELD, District Judge.
The accident occurred on the 19th' of August, 1918, and all the important occurrences were before dark. The brick barge Brigham came up the Gowanus Canal with the flood tide, and with the acquiescence of the Morton Company took the lower of the three berths in front of their property, being moored in such a position that the stern of the Brigham cleared the Carroll street abutment by some SO feet. The angle of the Carroll street draw is such that a boat coming straight through the draw up the canal would come in contact with a boat lying in the berth in which the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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