The Bridgeton
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in admiralty for collision by the North & East River Terminal Company, owner, and by William Gaffney, charterer, of the steam lighter Varina, against the steam tug Bridgeton; the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, claimant. Decree for libelants, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
February 28, 1913, the tug Bridgeton, with a loaded car float 250 feet long on her starboard side, left one of the *751bridges between Piers 7 and 8 at Communipaw, Jersey City, bound across the Hudson into the East River. At the same time the loaded steam lighter Varina was coming down the river bound into the same slip. The tide was ebb; the slip is 350 feet wide and 1,350 feet long. The car float and lighter came into collision almost head on before the car float had got entirely out of the slip. The result was that the Varina sank with her cargo, both sustaining serious…
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