The Cayuga
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of New York; the case being thus: Congress, by an act of April 29th, 1864, “fixing certain rules and regulations for preventing collisions on the water,” made among them the following: Two Ships under Steam meeting. Article 14. If two ships under steam are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the ship which has the other on hhr own starboard side shall keep out of the way. Construction op Articles 14, &c.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of New York; the case being thus: Congress, by an act of April 29th, 1864, “fixing certain rules and regulations for preventing collisions on the water,” made among them the following: Two Ships under Steam meeting. Article 14. If two ships under steam are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the ship which has the other on hhr own starboard side shall keep out of the way. Construction op Articles 14, &c. Article 18. Where by the above rule one of two ships is. to keep outmf the way, the other shall keep her course subject to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Collision cases usually present difficult questions of fact, arising from conflicting testimony, and the case before the court is one of that class, but both of the subordinate courts decided in favor of the libellants, and our decision, with brief explanations, must be in the same way.
The libellants are the owners of the steam ferry-boat James Watt, employed in transporting passengers and freight between the port of New York and the city of Hoboken, in the State of New Jersey, and they filed the libel in the District Court against the steamtug Cayuga, usually employed in towing vessels and'…
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