The Ticeline
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suits by the Tice Towing Line, owner of the tug Ticeline, against the derrick lighter Junior; by the-National Lead Company against the derrick lighter Junior and L. Boyer’s Sons Company; by the L. Boyer’s Sons Company, owner of the steam lighter Amelia, against 500 tons of oil cake, etc., and the National Lead Company; by the National Lead Company against the Junior; and by the L. Boyer’s Sons Company against the National Lead Company and Charles A. Mc-Neill…
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In Admiralty. Suits by the Tice Towing Line, owner of the tug Ticeline, against the derrick lighter Junior; by the-National Lead Company against the derrick lighter Junior and L. Boyer’s Sons Company; by the L. Boyer’s Sons Company, owner of the steam lighter Amelia, against 500 tons of oil cake, etc., and the National Lead Company; by the National Lead Company against the Junior; and by the L. Boyer’s Sons Company against the National Lead Company and Charles A. Mc-Neill and J. Lester Mack, trading as the McNeill Lighterage Company. Decree awarding salvage and damages primarily against the…
1Opinion of the Court
CI1ATFIELD, District Judge.
On the 4th of February, 1920, with the wind coming from the northeast, but with a northwesterly storm threatened, of which notice had been given by the Weather Bureau for a whole day previous, with snowy conditions prevailing, and the night setting in with a temperature slightly below freezing, with the snow turning to rain and falling in the form of sleet, the wind increased and forced from her moorings the derrick lighter Junior, at the gas com*984pany dock, just southwest of the opening to the Navy Yard on the Brooklyn side of the East River. The barge Captain…
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