KENNY v. BALBACH SMELTING & REFINING CO.


6 F.2d 671 (1923)

KENNY et al. v. BALBACH SMELTING & REFINING CO.

District Court, S. D. New York.

April 27, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Macklin, Brown & Van Wyck, and H. L. Cheyney, all of New York City, for libelants.

Watson, Harrington & Sheppard, Walter C. Sheppard and Ralph O. Willguss, all of New York City, for respondent.


WARD, Circuit Judge.

August 20, 1918, at about 6:30 a. m., at high water, the deck scow Kaolin, belonging to the libelant Kenny, with a cargo of slag consigned to the respondent, made fast with her starboard side alongside the respondent's bulkhead at Newark Bay, waiting her turn to be unloaded at the respondent's hopper. When the tide fell, she settled on an obstruction within 3 or 4 feet of the face of the bulkhead and began to leak. The captain went below and saw...

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