Skehan v. Tomkins Cove Stone Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by Jay S. Skehan, owner of the power boat Niagara V, against the barge Clingstone, with Frederick Semken and the B. Turecamo Contracting Company, Incorporated, im-pleaded. Decree for libelant against respondent Semken and the barge.
1Opinion of the Court
GARVIN, District Judge.
This libel was filed by the owner of the .power boat Niagara V against the barge Clingstone, for damages sustained as the barge swung around and struck her while both boats were moored at the pier at the foot of Bay Thirty-Second street, Brooklyn. The claimant has brought in by petition the B. Turecamo Contracting Company, Incorporated, to which the cargo of the Clingstone was consigned, and Frederick Semken the owner of the pier. On the evening of September 24, 1919, at 8 p. m., the Niagara V reached the Semken pier, at which the Clingstone was lying; the Niagara V,…
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