Legal Opinion
Pitney v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 15, 1945No. 350PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The libellant’s ferryboat Westfield left her terminal at Communipaw, N. J., about 9 o’clock on the morning of March 6, 1943, to make her usual run to her slip at Liberty Street on the Manhattan shore of the North River. The visibility was fair. When she had moved on a flood tide on a course a little north of east to a point some three thousand feet off the New York side of the river and while she was making about ten miles an hour her master saw the libelee’s steamlighter Admiral Villiers, a public vessel of the United States manned by a navy crew, coming up the river to…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- The BreakwaterSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- The Boston SoconyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
- Pennsylvania R. v. Delaware L. & W. R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1932
- The NewburghCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1921
- Red Star Towing & Transportation Co. v. Director General of RailroadsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
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3Cited by6 opinions
- United Overseas Export Lines, Inc. v. Medluck Compania Maviera, S.A.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- United Overseas Export Lines, Inc. v. Medluck Compania MavieraCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- Barrett v. City of New YorkDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1947
- Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Co. v. City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Co., Ltd., as Owner of the Motor Vessel Tynefield, Libelant-Appellant v. City of New York, as Owner of the Ferryboat Dongan Hills, City of New York, as Owner of the Ferryboat Dongan Hills, Libelant-Appellee v. The M/v Tynefield, Her Engines, Etc., and the Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Co., Ltd., Hastings & Sons, and Furness Withy & Co., Ltd., Petition of City of New York, as Owner of the Ferryboat Dongan Hills for a Limitation or Exoneration From LiabilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
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