Legal Opinion
Campbell v. Wetherill
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 12, 1904No. 56PublishedCited by 9 opinions
In,Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
Libelants brought this action to recover damages caused to their barge Nellie while lying at the wharf of respondent, located in front of his Club House, along the Cohansey creek, in the state of New Jersey. She was loaded with 175 tons of coal, consigned to the respondent, and arrived there on May 31, 1903, at 4 o’clock p. m. The Nellie is a steam barge, of regular canal boat build, flat bottom and round bilge, 96 feet long, 22feet beam, and on this date was drawing 8 feet 4 inches aft and 7 feet 6 inches at the bow. The barge was moored with bow up stream and…
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