Legal Opinion
The Clinton
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 3, 1899PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
At about 7:30 a. m. of March 12, 1899, as the ferryboat Clinton, of the Catherine ferry, was crossing from her New York slip to her slip in Brooklyn in the strong flood tide, she came in collision off her lower Brooklyn slip, about 100 or 200 feet distant therefrom, with the libelant’s dumper No. 7, which was lashed oil the starboard side of the tug Alfred W. Booth and proceeding down river about parallel with the New York shore. The above libel was filed to recover the damages to the dumper.
The ordinary course of the ferryboat from the New York slip to the Brooklyn slip…
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