Supreme Court of the United States December 8, 1924, 81 (In Re East River Towing Co.)

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

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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.