The Amboy

The collision in this case, in some of its aspects, resembles that of Briggs v. Day, 21 Fed. Rep. 727. In this case, as in that, the pilot of Transfer No. 2, which was coming down the East *556river, claims to have been misled as to the direction of the Amboy— which was going up the river — in consequence of seeing the latter’s white lights nearly directly ahead, no colored lights being visible, and for this reason he supposed that the Amboy was- going down the river, like himself. Nothing can be more contradictory or embarrassing than the evidence in this case upon the question whether the…