Morse v. The Charles Runyon’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““On the 31st day of March, 1889, a contract was made by the owners of the tug Charles Runyon to tow the canal boat Thomas Dobie, loaded with a cargo of coal, from Port Johnson to Barren island. The tug started in the morning with the canal boat, but after she passed Norton point the weather proved so heavy that the tug deemed it prudent to go no further. She accordingly turned back with the canal boat, and taking the canal boat to the north side of the American cotton docks, on Staten island, left her there, alongside of the north side of pier 1. The place where the canal boat was left was not a regular slip. It had never been excavated for a slip, but was simply part of the land used by the lighthouse station at Staten island, which adjoins pier 1 of the cotton docks. At the time the canal boat was left at that pier the master of the canal boat objected to the place as unsafe. The wind was then high. During the after noon tlie master of tlie canal boat proceeded to New York, and informed the owners of the tug that the boat was in danger, and requested them to move her to a safe place. They promised to do so in the morning. The master also made unsuccessful efforts to procure another tug to move him to a safe place. The bottom alongside pier 1, where the canal hoat was moored, was a shelving bank; tin water being some 30 feet deep at the end of the pier, and shoaling town ids the shore. During the night the caual boat suddenly broke in two, and sank.””

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