Legal Opinion
New York Cent. R. v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 2, 1927No. 316PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
At the time of this collision, the appellant’s barge Wee-hawken was lying alongside two other vessels at Pier 33, Brooklyn. This is adjacent to the Buttermilk Channel. The ferryboat Gowanus left her slip at Thirty-Ninth street in a very thick fog, and while navigating out of her course ran into and damaged the Weehawken.
The fog was very dense, and had prevailed for a considerable time previous. The Gowanus made a trip in the fog from Whitehall street to Thirty-Ninth street, and was returning at the time of the collision. Indeed, it was so dense that the ferry racks were…
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