Legal Opinion
The Covington
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 22, 1904PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Suit against tug to recover for the loss of a tow.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
This action was brought by Charles Mc-Williams, owner of the barge Mindoro, against the tug Covington, to recover the value of the barge, which was sunk at sea by reason of weather conditions, about 8 miles off Barnegat, New Jersey, on the 8th day of April, 1902, while in tow of the tug, bound from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Providence, Rhode Island, by way of New York.
The two consisted of three barges, loaded with coal, made up tandem, the first barge being the Kentucky, belonging to the claimant, 225 fathoms from the tug; the next, the Mindoro, the subject of this…
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