Wilmington Transp. Co. v. Edwards

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree holding the steamship Catalina solely liable for a collision with the motorboat Arbutus occurring in a dense fog in the traffic way between San Pedro on the California coast and Catalina Island. The only question presented by the briefed assignments of error is whether the Catalina was solely at fault.

The collision occurred at about 5 p. m. o’clock in a fog in a visibility of a distance of between 100 and 150 yards when the vessels sighted one another. The Catalina, a 1,765 gross ton passenger steamship, 301 feet long, on a trip from…