Green v. Boston Molasses Co.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the final decree of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts upon a libel filed by the owner of the steam trawler Heroine against the steamship Amolco to recover damages by reason of a collision between them in the upper bay of New York Harbor on the forenoon of April 23, 1920, on the easterly side of the main Ship Channel, about halfway between buoys 12 and 14. The Amolco, heavily loaded, was inward bound, and, having passed on her starboard at a distance of 200 or 300 feet buoy No. 12, which marks quite a sharp bend in the channel,…