Legal Opinion
The Baltimore
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 15, 1920No. 1536PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Libel by Tjebbe Swart against the barge Baltimore for damages resulting from a collision.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
This is a libel to recover damages received by the steamship Eemdijk while at anchor in President Roads, from a collision with the barge Baltimore, which dragged her anchors, so that the vessels came .into contact.
The steamer had been lying at anchor for several days in the same place. The barge was brought into port by.the tug Sanford on Sunday evening, March 4, 1917, in a heavy wind and snow, and was anchored •half or three-quarters of a mile to the north and windward of the steamer. Another barge was in the tow; she put down no anchors, but rode to a hawser on the…
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