The Hokendaqua
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Dibel by Walter P. Bliss against the steam tug Hokendaqua, her engines, etc., claimed by the James McWilliams Towing Dine. From a decree for respondent and claimant, libelant appeals. Appeal from a decree entered November 21, 1916, upon a libel in admiralty.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Dibel by Walter P. Bliss against the steam tug Hokendaqua, her engines, etc., claimed by the James McWilliams Towing Dine. From a decree for respondent and claimant, libelant appeals. Appeal from a decree entered November 21, 1916, upon a libel in admiralty. The proceeding was brought by the owner of the steam yacht May against the steam tug Hokendaqua for a collision off Horn’s! Hook in the East River on the 11th day of August, 1914, at about 11 o’clock on a clear morning. The tide, which was nearly at…
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1, 2] In The Arrow, 214 Fed. 743, 131 C. C. A. 49, this court decided that the situation here in question was not a crossing, but a meeting, case, unless an exchange to the contrary is agreed upon. It follows, therefore, that each vessel must normally pass port to port, and that the May would have been right in keeping on, expecting the Hokendaqua to go down the west channel, or at least to wait where she was until the May had crossed her bow. The Transfer No. 12, 221 Fed. 409, 137 C. C. A. 207. The Llokendaqua did neither, but proposed a starboard to…
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- Grove v. The AdmiralDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1889
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