The James A. Lawrence
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. These causes come here upon appeal from decrees of the district court, Southern district of New York, holding the steamship* Comanche and the steam tug James A. Lawrence both responsible for a collision between Car Float No. I, in tow of the Lawrence, and the steamer. 97 Fed. 351.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The collision took place about 4 a. m of December 30, 1897, under the following circumstances: The tug. w’th the car float on her port side, left the foot of Montague street, Brooklyn, bound to the Erie Railway docks at Jersey City. She came in collision with the Comanche, bound in from sea to her pier in the East river, just below the Brooklyn Bridge. The collision occurred 300 or* 350 feet off the South Ferry slip. The tide was strong ebb, the night fairly clear,. lights could be seen easily. The stem of the Comanche struck the car float about 15 feet aft of the…
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