Ulster Oil Transportation Corp. v. The Tug H. A. Meldrum
This text of 229 F.2d 568 (Ulster Oil Transportation Corp. v. The Tug H. A. Meldrum) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Judge Byers’ opinion and findings, D. C.E.D.N.Y., 122 F.Supp. 767, which are fully sustained in the record, demonstrate that no negligence can be charged to either towing or passing tug for the three-inch stone found in, the side bottom of libelant’s barge after it had rubbed along the bank of the New York State Barge Canal. We also find point •’n the judge’s remark that with so large [569]*569a barge in so small a channel “navigation in the Barge Canal is attended by certain obvious perils,” 122 F.Supp. 767, 769, apparent to the owners.
Affirmed.
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