In re Knickerbocker Steamboat Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Proceeding for limitation of liability. On exception to interrogatories in answer.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
The libel here was filed by the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, to contest and limit its liability as owner of the steamboat General Slocum. It is alleged that on the 15th of June, 1904, she was engaged in transporting a number of passengers from the foot of Third Street, East River, New York, to Locust Grove, New York, and while proceeding on the trip, about 10 o’clock in the forenoon, through Hell Gate, she was discovered to be on fire, said fire having originated in the forecastle from an unknown cause, and she was beached on the northerly end of Brothers .Island. It…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- The City of NorwichSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- United States v. Van SchaickU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1904
3Cited by9 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Sowers v. OlwellWashington Supreme Court · 1964
- Samuel C. Brody v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1957
- Mumford v. CroftSuperior Court of Delaware · 1952
- In Re Knickerbocker Steamboat Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1905
- Erie & Western Transp. Co. v. Great Lakes Towing Co.District Court, D. New Jersey · 1910
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