MORAN TOWING & TRANSP. CO. v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 968, Docket 79-7838.

620 F.2d 356 (1980)

MORAN TOWING & TRANSPORTATION CO., INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Pohl, Robert J. Zapf and Burlingham, Underwood & Lord, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Leonard A. Mentzer, Allen G. Schwartz, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Before FRIENDLY and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.


THOMSEN, District Judge:

The City of New York, defendant below, appeals from the decision of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Irving Ben Cooper, Judge, finding it solely liable for damages to a crane, mounted on a crane barge lashed to the port side of a tug owned and being operated by employees of plaintiff (Moran), when the top of the crane struck a girder under the Broadway lift bridge over the Harlem River while being towed upstream...

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