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IN RE EAST RIVER CO.

No. 81.

266 U.S. 355 (1924)

IN THE MATTER OF PETITION OF EAST RIVER TOWING CO., INC., FOR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF THE STEAMTUG EDWARD, HER ENGINES, ETC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 8, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.C. Sherwood and Mr. John M. Woolsey, with whom Mr. Clarence S. Zipp was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. William S. Butler and Mr. James A. Gray, with whom Mr. Henry J. Beilman was on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Chauncey I. Clark and Mr. Samuel C. Coleman, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.

Mr. Frank P. Deering, Mr. Halsey L. Rixford and Mr. Robert M. Jones, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes here upon a certificate from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The facts are few. On August 2, 1922, the Steamtug Edward, belonging to East River Towing Company, Inc., a New York Corporation, sank in New York harbor because of an explosion of her boiler. This caused the death of her captain,...

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