Legal Opinion
The Peconic
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 27, 1903PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Cross-libels for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
On the 27th day of August, 1902, about 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon, a collision occurred in New York Bay, a little below the Narrows between Fort Wadsworth and Fort Lafayette, between the steamships Peconic, bound out, and the Liguria, bound in, and libels were filed by the respective owners, to recover the resulting damages, claimed to amount altogether to over $100,000.
The weather was clear, the wind light from the southward and the tide had just commenced to ebb. Each vessel was fully manned and was in charge of a Sandy Hook Pilot. The Liguria was 403 feet long and…
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