Western Union Tel. Co. v. Inman & I. Steamship Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. These were cross libels to recover damages caused by the breaking of a submarine cable by the screw of the steamship City of Richmond, and for fouling of the screw thereby.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. These were cross libels to recover damages caused by the breaking of a submarine cable by the screw of the steamship City of Richmond, and for fouling of the screw thereby. In the district court the libel of the telegraph company was dismissed, and that of the steamship company sustained. 43 Fed. 85. This decree was affirmed pro forma by the circuit court, and the telegraph company appeals, Statement by LAOOMIJE, Circuit Judge: These are appeals by the Western Union Telegraph Company from…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge,
(after stating the facts.) Briefly stated, the movements of the steamship on the day in question were as follows: She arrived in the vicinity of the Inman pier at about 9 A. M., on a flood tide. That pier is immediately below the Aether-land. pier, and immediately above the Red Star pier. Her own berth, on the north side of the Inman pier, was occupied by another steamer of that line, and the slip south of that pier was full of barges. The flood tide made it necessary for her to proceed some distance above, and then round to, so as to make the end of her pier (the only…
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