Legal Opinion
Peterson v. United New York Sandy Hook Pilots Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 9, 1936No. 250PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
On the early morning of January 26, 1933, the steamship Black Gull, bound for Antwerp and other European ports, proceeded down New York Harbor in charge ■of Hugh McIntyre, a Sandy Hook pilot. Shortly before 5 a. m. the pilot boat Sandy Hook was sighted at the outer pilot station near Ambrose Channel Light and was signaled by the steamer at McIntyre’s request to take him off. There was a 45-mile gale from the northeast, and waves were running as high as 10 feet from crest to trough. Rain was falling intermittently; the visibility of objects on the sea was very poor. The…
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