The Persian
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in admiralty by the British & South American Steam Navigation Company, Limited, as owner of the steamship Hesperides, against the steamship Persian, and by the Miners’ & Merchants’ Transportation Company, as owner of the steamship Persian, against the steamship Hesperides. Cross-suits for collision.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in admiralty by the British & South American Steam Navigation Company, Limited, as owner of the steamship Hesperides, against the steamship Persian, and by the Miners’ & Merchants’ Transportation Company, as owner of the steamship Persian, against the steamship Hesperides. Cross-suits for collision. Decrees in favor of the Hesperides (159 Fed. 788), and the owner of the Persian appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from decrees of the District Court, Southern District of New York, holding the…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The general facts are succinctly stated in the following excerpts from the opinion of the district judge, it being premised that at Pollock Rip Lightship the course of vessels bound up or down the coast makes an abrupt turn of about 90°;
“At the southern entrance to Pollock Rip Slue is stationed the Pollock Rip Light Vessel. From this light vessel to the northward at intervals of about a mile and a half apart are stationed first Bell Buoy No. 1, the Whistling Buoy No. 2, and then the Pollock Rip Shoals Light Vessel. There are shoals on each side of the line between the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Metropolitan S. S. Co. v. VanderbiltCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1896
- Atlas S. S. Co. v. La Campagnie Generale TransatlantiqueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1898
- Pearce v. Old Colony Steamboat Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1899
- The City of LowellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1907
- The MilliganDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1882
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- The Socony No. 9Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1934
- Oil Transfer Corp. v. Diesel Tanker F. A. Verdon, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1960
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