Newtown Creek Towing Co. v. City of New York

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

This libel must be dismissed, with costs.

The bridge at which the accident sued for herein occurred crosses Newtown creek at Greenpoint avenue. It is a swinging bridge, and the are of its swing is one hundred and eighty degrees in either direction and the radius thereof is about eighty feet. It is supported in its center on what is called the center pan. This contains the revolving machinery which is electrically operated. When the bridge is fully open, there is a passage, be-' tween seventy and eighty feet wide, for vessels on each side of the center pan and its…