The Hamburg
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York; Teamed Hand, Judge. Libél by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company against the Hamburg and others. Decree for libelant, and the Hamburg-American Tine, claimant, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge,
fl] May 5, 1910, the libelant’s boat Eureka No. 2 was sent with coal for the steamship Hamburg to the pier of the Hamburg-American Dine in Hoboken. The steamship was lying breasted out from the pier, and the boat was moored in the slip about 15 feet astern of her and outside of another coal boat. Early the next morning the De Mayo Coaling Company’s servants, wanting to get the boat alongside the steamship, moved her between the bow of the inside boat and the stern of the steamship, but so negligently that she struck the starboard propeller and sustained considerable…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cahill v. WillieDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1886
3Cited by2 opinions
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