Legal Opinion
The Livingstone
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 14, 1902No. 83PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal by the owners of the Grand Traverse from a decree of the district court, Northern district of New York, holding both vessels in fault for a collision between the steam propeller Livingstone and the steam propeller Grand Traverse, and dividing the damages. 104 Fed. 918. The Livingstone did not appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The general facts of the collision are succinctly set forth in the opinion of the district judge, as follows:
“The collision occurred about half past five on the morning oí October 19, 1896. when the steamers were on Lake Erie about a mile N. TV. of Colchester Light, Ontario. The Traverse, a propeller 182 feet long and 33 feet beam, loaded with coal and merchandise, was proceeding up the lake on a voyage from Buffalo to Green Bay, Wis. Her course was W. by N. % N. Her speed was about 8% miles an hour. The Livingstone, a propeller 280 feet in length and about 38 feet…
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