Legal Opinion
City of New York v. American Export Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 2, 1942No. 26PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The claimant of the ship, “Exporter,” appeals from a decree in the admiralty holding her solely at fault for a collision with the “sludge boat,” “Coney Island,” owned by the City of New York. The collision was on a clear night, in the East River, opposite Corlear’s Hook, about one third of the distance from the New York to the Brooklyn shore. The “Exporter” was bound downstream against a flood tide, the “Coney Island” upstream; the district' judge found .that the situation called for a starboard to starboard passing in which the “Exporter” did not do her duty.
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