Newark Express & Transportation Co. v. Hudson County

These two cases are here on appeals from decrees of the District Court, dismissing tbe libel in tbe first ease and tbe cross-libel in the second. They were tried together in the District Court, and were argued-together here.

The county of Hudson and the county of Essex, in the state of New Jersey, own and operate a drawbridge over the Passaic river, called the “Clay street bridge.” On September 11, 1923, the steam fighter Kearney left Madison street, Newark, N. J., on the Passaic river, for the town of Kearney, N. J., and had to pass through the Clay street bridge draw on its way. As the…