The Raithmoor
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ' FOR THE. EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The .facts, which involve the jurisdiction in admiralty . of the District Court of a libel in rem against a vessel for damages caused by its colliding with an incompleted beacon in navigable water, are stated in the opinion. The analogy to an unfinished ship supports the juris- • diction in the case.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ' FOR THE. EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The .facts, which involve the jurisdiction in admiralty . of the District Court of a libel in rem against a vessel for damages caused by its colliding with an incompleted beacon in navigable water, are stated in the opinion. The analogy to an unfinished ship supports the juris- • diction in the case. Ferry v. Bers, 20 How. 393; Edwards v. Elliott, 21 Wall. 532, 553; Graham v. Morton Tramp. Co., 203 U. S. 577, distinguished, and see Phila. W. W. & B, R. R. v. Towboat Co., 23 How. 209, 215; Atlantic…
1Opinion of the Court
Mk. Justice Hughes
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant filed a libel in rem in the admiralty against the steamship “Raithmoor” to recover damages for tort. The steamship, coming up the Delaware River on the evening of July 18, 1909, collided with a scow and pile' drver belonging to the appellant, and also with a structure which the appellant was erecting for the United States to serve as a beacon, and with a temporary platform used in connection with the work of construction. For the injury to the scow and pile driver, a decree was entered in favor of the libellant. But the…
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