American Mfg. Co. v. The Maverick
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. These were two libels in rem for collision, filed, respectively, by the American Manufacturing Company and by John W. Hall and others against the steamship Maverick (the Standard Oil Company, claimant). The circuit court rendered a decree for the libelants (75 Fed. 845), and the claimant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
In any view of the facts warranted by the evidence in the record, the steamship was guilty of fault contributing to the collision; and we are satisfied that she was solely in fault.
The collision took place just after dusk, in a bright night, off the coast of New Jersey, about 10 miles east of Barnegat. The libelant’s schooner, the Lister, was hound from New York to Wilmington, and for two or three hours her course had been S. by W. ■} W. ■ She was proceeding under full sail, with, a fair, breeze, at a speed of about five knots an hour. The steamship Maverick was bound…
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