Timur Fishing Corp. v. Cap'n Bill, Inc.

ALDRICH, District Judge.

At noontime on August 28, 1956 there had been for two days on Georges Bank *564a particularly heavy fog. Of the various witnesses who testified on the subject none put the visibility at over 100 feet, and some placed it at 50. In spite of this the scalloper Mary & Julia was proceeding easterly, towing her drags, with no lookout, at speeds variously put between three and six knots, and signal-ling only every four or five minutes, and the scalloper Cap’n Bill was proceeding NNW to make a new set with no lookout, and giving no signals at all. Aboard each two deck-hands were…