Campbell v. Pennsylvania R.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
This is an appeal from a decree, of tbe district court, Southern district of New York, in favor of the libelant for damages to his canal boats Howard Stellar and Tompkins, caused by a collision with respondent’s car float No. 16, which broke away from her moorings, and collided with them. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Per curiam
The two canal boats, with others, were lying moored in the slip on the south side of the Erie dock or pier, North river, Jersey City. Next below to the southward is the Abbatoir dock, and on its north side the car float, not being needed for use, was laid up. It was secured with three lines, had been thus laid up some two or three weeks, and on the fall of the tide would take bottom, and, the bottom being uneven would list towards the Erie dock. At about 1 p. m. of February 11, 1896, at low water, the float swung across the slip, owing to the rendering of her head line from the bow cleat,…
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