The Binghamton
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District, of New York. Suits in admiralty for collision by the Czarnikow-Rionda Company, by the Sibiria Steamship Corporation and another, and by the Warner Sugar Refining Company against the steamship Binghamton, the Binghamton Steamship Company, Incorporated, claimant, and by said claimant and others against the steamship Sagua, claimed by the Sibiria Steamship Corporation.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District, of New York. Suits in admiralty for collision by the Czarnikow-Rionda Company, by the Sibiria Steamship Corporation and another, and by the Warner Sugar Refining Company against the steamship Binghamton, the Binghamton Steamship Company, Incorporated, claimant, and by said claimant and others against the steamship Sagua, claimed by the Sibiria Steamship Corporation. Decree holding both vessels in fault, and both claimants appeal. Modified, by discharging the Binghamton from all liability. Certiorari denied, 254 U.…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] Several matters discussed at bar were passed on in the trial court in a way satisfactory to us. Thus we hold with the court below that the Binghamton down to the moment of collision was pursuing a substantially steady course; she did not change her course in the manner contended for by the Sagua’s watch officer.
Again, the Binghamton’s colored lights plainly complied with the law, for they were seen much further than the statutory distance. Nor were these lights obscured in any manner contributing to collision. This is sufficiently proven by the fact…
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