Pleasure Beach Park Co. v. Bridgeport Dredge & Dock Co.

The plaintiff owned and operated a pleasure park near Bridgeport, with a bridge over an arm of the sea connecting the park with the mainland, while the defendant owned a shipyard and docks a short distance to the north. Moored to the docks were several boats, including a dredge, a pile driver and a barge, and about eleven a. m. March 8th, 1931, these broke away in a storm. The barge was blown through the draw of the bridge and did no damage, but the dredge and pile driver were blown against the bridge causing injury to the latter, and the plaintiff brings this suit to recover compensation…