Pearce v. Old Colony Steamboat Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This collision between the schooner Benjamin A. Van Brant and the steamer Pilgrim occurred, during a dense fog, between 4 and 5 o’clock on the morning of Sunday, September 11, 1892, in the channel in front of the city of Fall Elver. The particular locality was about a mile below the wharves of the Old Colony Steamboat Company, whose steamers, of which the Pilgrim was one, were then plying between Pall River and New York. The Van Brunt came in, coal laden, on Wednesday, September 7th, and had been lying at anchor in the channel at this place, waiting her turn to be…
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