In re Starin
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Proceeding for limitation of liability. The petition showed that the petitioner, John H. Starin, was sole owner of the barge Curry, and that an action at law' had been commenced against him in a state court by Mrs. Griffin to recover for an injury received by her while a passenger on said barge.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
Mrs. Griffin, a passenger, alleges that by reason of its wet condition she slipped and fell on the gangplank of the barge Curry as she was passing over the same to go ashore, whereby she was injured. The Curry was on the port side, and the barge Sumner on the starboard side, of the steamer Starin, and in this conjunction carried Sunday School excursionists from Jersey City to Orchard Beach, L,. I., when- the accident occurred. The passengers, some 2,500 to 3,000, went aboard and were discharged over the Curry’s plank, and several hundred had passed over the plank at…
2Cited by1 opinion
- In re StarinDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1909