Flora B. v. The Harrisburg

BUTLER, District Judge.

The testimony is conflicting and irreconcilable. A careful examination of it, however, has satisfied me that the sloop was in fault. Without running out her eastward tack she came about westward, not very far from mid channel, without having ascertained whether it was safe to do so. There was no proper excuse for her failure to continue eastward. She could have readily gone around the mud scows alleged to have been in her way, even if they, were where she locates them. I doubt whether they were there; the disinterested witnesses who were on the wharf, saw the sloop'…