Mattlage v. Boards of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson & Bergen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garretson, J.

While the plaintiff’s schooner was going through the not fully opened draw in the defendants’ bridge at Little Ferry, on the Hackensack river, it was damaged, and for these damages this suit is brought.

It appears from the evidence of the plaintiff that on Sunday morning, November 1st, 1903, the schooner approached the draw, the captain having blown a horn as a signal to open it, when some one hallooed to stand back, whereupon the captain turned around and sailed back up the river, when he received another signal to come on, and he then…