The May McGuirl
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the. District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Two libels in admiralty, tried together, one by the Sutton & Suder-ley Brick Company, and the other by Jacob Rice, against the steam tug May McGuirl, her engines, etc.; the Shamrock Towing Company, claimant. From decrees for libelants, claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
The libelants are owners — the Brick Company of the cargo, and Rice of the hull — of the scow Augusta R., which was in charge of the tug May McGuirl, bound for a point on the Gowanus Canal. After dark of a spring evening, with the wind light from the northeast, the tug arrived as near the scow’s destination as she could get that night, and left her tow in what is charged in the pleadings as an unsafe mooring. The tow consisted, not only of the Augusta R., but of another and somewhat larger brick scow, the Rich. The two scows had been taken into the canal tandem, with…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The BritanniaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918
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