The John H. Starin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeals from decrees of the District Court holding both steam vessels in fault for a collision between the ferryboat Jamaica and the steamer John H. Starin, and for'a collision , immediately ensuing between the latter and the barge McDain made fast to a pier. The opinion of the District Court is found in 145 Fed. 723. It fully sets forth all the facts.
1Per curiam
We concur with the district judge. The Starin was the privileged vessel, and as such was required to maintain her course and speed. She wholly failed to maintain her course. When the vessels sighted each other she was about 50 feet from the Tenth street buoy and a little on the Brooklyn side of midriver, bound down to round the Battery for her berth on the North river. The collision took place about 100 feet off the line of the New York piers, a little below the Houston Street ferry.
The Jamaica was the burdened vessel, and was required to keeip óut of the way of the Starin, and to avoid…
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