The La Bretagne
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. Suit by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company against the steamship La Bretagne, La Campagnie Genérale Transatlantique, claimant. Decree for libelant (148 Fed. 477) for half damages, and libelant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. Suit by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company against the steamship La Bretagne, La Campagnie Genérale Transatlantique, claimant. Decree for libelant (148 Fed. 477) for half damages, and libelant appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Court, Southern district of New York, awarding half damages to the libelant in respect of injuries received by its car float B. & O. No. 160 N. in consequence of a collision with the S. S. La Bretagne near Liberty Island, New…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
La Bretagne was coming down the Main Ship Channel bound for sea; the Narragansett with a car float on each side of her was proceeding up the same channel on a trip from St. George, Staten Island, to pier 32, North river. We concur in the. conclusion of the District Judge that when navigation relative to each other began each vessel had the other on her starboard bow; that they were in a position to pass safely starboard to starboard, and that the Bretagne was in fault for undertaking to go to starboard and thus pass to the westward of the Narragansett, crossing' the…
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