The Java
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. On the 7th of November, 1866, the Cunard steamer Java, a screw-steamship of large size, drawing nineteen feet water, and about 360 feet long (more than usual length), entered Boston harbor (a diagram of part of which is on a page following), about noon, in fine, clear weather, the tide being about one hour’s ebb, and the wind blowing a three or four knot breeze from the west.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. On the 7th of November, 1866, the Cunard steamer Java, a screw-steamship of large size, drawing nineteen feet water, and about 360 feet long (more than usual length), entered Boston harbor (a diagram of part of which is on a page following), about noon, in fine, clear weather, the tide being about one hour’s ebb, and the wind blowing a three or four knot breeze from the west. Her berth and point of destination was a wharf at East Boston, about 2000 feet east of the Boston Commercial Wharves. Her proper course in coming up from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
If the expressions of the learned judge who delivered the opinion of the Circuit Court, in answer to the argument that the Java pursued an unusual course in attempting to go to her dock by the passage to the right of the school-ship, and which have been commented on at the bar, mean that she was bound to use more than ordinary precaution by reason of taking an unusual route, they are correct; hut if they mean that she was liable at all events, whatever precautions she took, we cannot concur in the position. A small vessel might have been concealed by the school-ship, aud might have come out…
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