LINCOLN S. S. LINE v. UNITED STATES

No. 341.

7 F.2d 886 (1925)

LINCOLN S. S. LINE, Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 8, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward D. Williams and Rumsey & Morgan, all of New York City (Mark W. Maclay and John Tilney Carpenter, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Emory R. Buckner, U. S. Atty., of New York City (William B. Gray, Jr., Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of New Rochelle, N. Y., of counsel), for the United States.

Before ROGERS, HOUGH, and HAND, Circuit Judges.


HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

Respondent's steamship Hatteras stranded on the Florida coast on a falling tide, at approximately 8 p. m. August 12, 1920, and got off (according to her own captain) at 6 p. m. the next day. Libelant's steamship Aragon admittedly tried to haul her off for several hours before she floated, and admittedly also did not succeed, but broke her hawser in the effort, the hawser got into her own wheel, and she became helpless, requiring assistance herself...

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