The Syracuse
District Court, N.D. New York
Libel by the Niagara Paper Company, owner of the steam tug Elk, to recover damages to said tug occasioned by a collision with the propeller Syracuse while the latter was being assisted, and partly towed, into the harbor of Buffalo by the steam tug Grace Danforth.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
At about 9 o’clock on the morning of November 26, 189'5, the steam tug Elk was lying moored to the dock at the foot of Commercial street in the harbor of Buffalo. The Elk is a large tug, 96 feet long and 17{- feet beam, having low-pressure engines and a detached condenser pump. She was left in charge of her fireman and deckhand, a young man about 17 years of age. Her master and her engineer were at the time on shore, attending to business connected with the tug. A severe gale was blowing from the southwest. The maximum velocity of the wind that day was 68 miles an hour,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- The "Margaret."Supreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Pringle v. MichiganU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan · 1891
- The NicholsonDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1886
- Tisdale v. The AlphaDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1886