Healey v. Moran Towing & Transportation Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Harriett A. Healey against the Moran Towing & Transportation Company and the Cranford Company, impleaded. Decree for libelant, and the Cranford Company appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Harriett A. Healey against the Moran Towing & Transportation Company and the Cranford Company, impleaded. Decree for libelant, and the Cranford Company appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from a final decree entered, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on June 1, 1917. The libelant Is the owner of the scow and dumper Olympia, a vessel without motive power, built and used for the carriage of cargoes through tbe waters of the harbor of Now…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It appears that the Cranford Company had a contract for the construction of a certain portion of a Rapid Transit subway in the borough of Brooklyn. It also appears that the Cranford Company then entered into a contract with the Moran Towing & Transportation Company, which contract is in writing and under seal, for the delivery of its excavated material at its Gowanus Canal dumping board to scows or dumpers of the latter. The agreement recites the subway contract and. .stipulates that in the subway work “it will be necessary to disjpose of excavated material…
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