Bryant v. The Excelsior
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libel for damages by collision. Libel by Ivanhoe 0. Bryant against the Excelsior, to recover damages sustained by reason of a collision of libelant’s schooner with the steam'ship Excelsior, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligent navigation of the latter.
1Opinion of the CourtBenedict, J.
After a careful examination of the testimony in this case I am unable to see how the libelant can recover. The points in controversy are: (1) Whether the schooner, coming up the bay of New York, on a course north by east, held her course when approaching the steamer, as the libelant contends, or whether she changed her course to westward, as the claimant contends; (2) whether the schooner’s sidelight was burning as she approached the steamer; (3) whether the steamer was in fault for not seeing the schooner sooner than she did; (4) whether the schooner displayed a white light to the steamer as…
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