HULBERT, District Judge.
The city of Mt. Vernon is a municipal corporation in the county of Westchester, state of New York, and at all of the times mentioned in the libel filed herein had control of the maintenance and operation of a highway drawbridge of the jackknife type, erected to carry traffic on Fulton avenue across Eastchester creek (also known as Hutchinson river), a navigable waterway flowing into Long Island Sound.
On November 27, 1928, the lighter...
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