Legal Opinion
The Tremont
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided August 15, 1906No. 2,784PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for collision. The following is a map of the locality of the collision:
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
A collision occurred between the steamships Tremont and Ramona on a foggy night in the month of August, 1904, and the questions to be adjudicated in this lawsuit relate to the responsibility for said collision. The Ramona is presumptively the vessel in fault because she rammed the Tremont on her starboard side ~2 feet abaft her stem, but there are other circumstances to be considered. The Tremont is a large iron or steel vessel more than 500 feet in length, having twin propellers, and at the time of the collision she was outward bound, carrying a cargo of 10,000 tons…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The RickmersCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1905
3Cited by4 opinions
- The WrightCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940
- The EuropeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1911
- The Kaga MaruDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1927
- United States v. Petroleum Nav. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940