Legal Opinion
The Nonpariel
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided September 7, 1905PublishedCited by 8 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZED, District Judge.
This proceeding was instituted against the claimant, a railroad corporation, to recover damages sustained by the libelant in consequence of a collision in the Erie Canal of the canal boat Nonpariel with a submerged wooden crib surmounted by a pier. Such pier or abutment, together with several others, supported the railroad bridge of the claimant across said canal and adjacent waters of Tonawanda creek. The mishap occurred at about 1:30 o’clock a. m. on May 14, 1901, at Tonawanda, N. Y., while the Nonpariel was being pushed by the steam canal boat William Hengerer, which…
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