Murray v. The Chicago
District Court, S.D. New York
These wore cross libels by John Murray and another against the ferryboat Chicago, and by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company against the tug Volunteer, for damages from a collision between the ferryboat and a scow in tow of the tug.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
At about 6 p. m., after dark, on the evening of November 28, 1893, as the ferryboat Chicago, from Jersey City, was about to enter her slip at the foot of Cortlandt street on the ebb tide, she came in collision with a loaded sand scow, which, was lashed to the starboard side, and in tow of the *522tug Volunteer, which was going up the North river just outside the line of the piers.
The testimony of the pilot of the ferryboat shows that after he had given his first signal of two whistles to the tug when some 300 yards distant, and received, as he says, a reply of two whistles…
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