Lincoln S. S. Line, Inc. v. United States

HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

Respondent’s steamship Hatteras stranded on the Florida coast on a falling tide, at approximately 8 p. m. August 12, 1920, and got off (according to her own captain) at 6 p. m. the next day. Libelant’s steamship Aragon admittedly tried to haul her off for several hours before she floated, and admittedly also did not succeed, but broke her hawser in the effort, the hawser got into her own wheel, and she became helpless, requiring assistance herself to get into Miami. The libel asserts that Aragon had an exceptionally well-arranged towing apparatus, enabling her to surge or…