American Sugar Refining Co. v. City of New York

(after stating the facts as above). It neither is, nor can be, claimed that the Brazil, moored as it was, without any power whatever, could have avoided the collision or was in any way at fault. Nor is there any question about O’Brien Bros., Inc., being entitled to salvage for the final picking up and successful tieing up of the scows. We will assume, for the purposes of this ease, without deciding, that the Bouker tug negligently left these scows insecurely moored at the bulkhead, and consider whether such negligence was the proximate cause of what followed. It is seen that the scow captains…