A. A. Raven
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the United States as owner of the steam dredge Delaware against the steamship A. A. Raven, O. J. Chalsen, master.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
Special findings of facts and conclusions of law as reached in this case are filed herewith. The case turns wholly upon the facts. The legal conclusions are merely formal.
An outline statement of the main facts may be given in short compass. The dredge Delaware is used in the work of the deepening of the channel of the Delaware River and Bay. The steamship Raven plies between the port of Philadelphia and New Orleans. They collided on the night of December 5, 1913, about 9 o’clock p. m. The dredge was steaming up the river and the Raven down. The tide was on the ebb;…
2Cited by1 opinion
- The A. A. RavenCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1916