The Cincinnati’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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1. ““The Cincinnati was not ‘entering or leaving any adjacent dock or pier.’ The Fletcher was obstructing Starin’s slip to the south, but the Cincinnati1 was not seeking to enter that slip, and her entrance thereto was not anticipated, nor had she any right therein. The statute undoubtedly intends to prevent the use of piers forming the boundaries of slips to or from which another vessel seeks entrance or exit. A vessel in passage may not rake a ship lying at the end of a pier in the river, and exculpate itself from responding therefor upon the ground that it was making its way in a fog and trying to find and enter its proper slip, and that the injured ship was at the end of the pier, in violation of the statute. A broader view of .the statute than that here adopted is inconsistent with its words and spirit, and incompatible with the necessities of the port, which the legislature may be presumed to have considered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Chauncey M. Depew

2. “Laws N. Y. 124th Session, 1901, vol. 3, p. 375, § 879: “It shall not be lawful for any vessel, canal boat, barge, lighter or tug to obstruct the waters of the harbor by lying-at the exterior end of wharves in the waters of the North or East River, except at their own risk of injury from vessels entering or leaving any adjacent dock or pier; any vessel, canal boat, barge, lighter or tug so lying shall not be entitled to claim or demand damages for any injury caused by any vessel entering or leaving any adjacent pier.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Allemannia