The Bangor
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
■Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by Owen J. McWilliams and others, owners of the lighter Moonlight, against the steam lighter Bangor, of which the Delaware, Dackawanna & Western Railroad Company was claimant, and cross-libel against the steam tug Zouave. Decree against the Bangor, and her claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
June 3, 1912, at about 6:40 p. m., the lighter Moonlight on the port side of the tug Zouave, while entering the slip between covered piers 4 and 5 of the. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company on the North river, came into collision with the steam lighter Bangor, which was backing out. The Bangor started from the grain dock, a pier about 260 feet inside of the mouth of the slip between piers 4 and 5. ' The entrance is nearly 300 feet wide, but was reduced to about 200 feet, because of car floats lying at the *707river end of pier 4 on the north side and projecting…
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