Squires v. Parker
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The libel in this case was filed for the purpose of recovering damages ensuing upon a collision which took place in the early morning of the 20th, of September, 1888, between the libelant’s schooner, the Owaseo, and the claimant’s steamship, the Minneapolis, just below the mouth of the Detroit river, where it opens into the lake.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The libel in this case was filed for the purpose of recovering damages ensuing upon a collision which took place in the early morning of the 20th, of September, 1888, between the libelant’s schooner, the Owaseo, and the claimant’s steamship, the Minneapolis, just below the mouth of the Detroit river, where it opens into the lake. The Owaseo had, during the night before, been brought down in a tow, of which she was the rearward vessel, by a tug. At the time when the tow passed out of the river into the…
1Opinion of the CourtSeverens, Circuit Judge
The. learned district judge did not file an opinion in disposing of this case, and we have not, therefore, the advantage of knowing on ■what .grounds he rested Ms decision. Upon an attentive review of the record, we are constrained to a different conclusion. By rulé 20, prescribed by section 4233 of the Revised Statutes, it is declared that “if two vessels, one of which is a sail vessél and the other a steam vessel, are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk, of collision, -the steam vessel shall keep out of the way of the sail vessel”; and by rule 23 that, when oné of two vessels…
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