McClellan v. Volunteer & Syracuse
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libel by William It. McClellan against the steam-tugs Volunteer and Syracuse, for the loss of the canal-boat Ethel by collision. Decree for libelant against the Volunteer, and libel dismissed as to the Syracuse.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, District Judge.
On the 19th of March, 1891, about 2:30 u. m. , the tide being flood, as the steam-tug Volunteer having a car-float on her starboard side, was passing Horn’s Hook in coming from the Harlem river, and intending to go down in the easterly channel past Blackwell’s island, her float came in collision with the libelant’s canal-boat Elbe], which was going up river in tow of the steam-tug Syracuse and on her starboard side, and the Ethel soon after sank. The libel was filed to recover the value of the canal-boat and cargo, with the personal effects of those on hoard.
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