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MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORP. v. CORNELL STEAMSHIP CO.

No. 134, Docket 25081.

265 F.2d 537 (1959)

MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORPORATION, Appellee, v. CORNELL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, claimant of THE tug, LION, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Kalaidjian and Robert S. Stitt, New York City, Thacher, Proffitt, Prizer, Crawley & Wood, New York City, for appellant.

Stephen K. Carr, New York City, for appellee.

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for libellant-appellee.

James M. Estabrook, New York City, of counsel.

Before HAND and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges, and BYERS, District Judge.

HAND, Circuit Judge.

The Cornell Steamship Company appeals from a decree in the admiralty of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Murphy, J., presiding, holding its tug, "Lion," solely liable for a collision with an "icebreaker," constructed in the Hudson River to protect one of the abutments of the Thruway Bridge then being constructed by the libellant across the Hudson River in Tappan Zee. The "icebreaker" was at the north end of the eastern...

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