Legal Opinion
A. H. Bull Steamship Company, Owner of the Elizabeth, Libelant and v. The Exanthia and Its Owner, American Export Lines, Inc., and Cross-Libelant
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 15, 1956No. 23784_1PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal and cross-appeal from an interlocutory decree of the district court in admiralty finding both the steamship Elizabeth and the steamship Exanthia at fault in a collision between the two vessels occurring in Delaware Bay, February 16, 1951. The accident took place at 2:05% a. m. on a clear night with good visibility at a point in a northwesterly direction from Miah Maull Lighthouse.
A few minutes before the collision the Exanthia, a vessel of about 6,000 gross tons, was proceeding north up the Delaware River channel at a speed of about 17Yz knots through the…
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