The Clarita and the Clara
Supreme Court of the United States
A company in New York, called the New York Harbor Protection Company, and whose business was the aiding, protecting, and saving vessels in the port of New York, when wrecked or in distress — including the rendering of aid, protection, and safety to such vessels on fire or threatened with conflagration — was the owner of a steam-tug called the Clarita.
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A company in New York, called the New York Harbor Protection Company, and whose business was the aiding, protecting, and saving vessels in the port of New York, when wrecked or in distress — including the rendering of aid, protection, and safety to such vessels on fire or threatened with conflagration — was the owner of a steam-tug called the Clarita. This tug was- equipped, not only with means suited to assist vessels wrecked or in distress, generally, but with special apparatus for extinguishing fires, that is to say with powerful pumps and hose, worked by steam as fire-engines, also with…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
The opinions were as follows:
I
In the Claim for Damages.
(The Clariia.)
I. Vessels engaged in commerce are held liable for damage occasioned by collision on account of the complicity, direct or indirect, of their owners, or the negligence, want of care or skill on the part of those employed in their navigation. Owners appoint the master and employ the crew, and consequently are held responsible for their conduct in the management of the vessel. *
Whenever, therefore, a fault is committed whereby a collision ensues, that fault is imputed to the owners, and the vessel is just as much liable for the…
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