Legal Opinion
The Monterey
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 31, 1907PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Suit for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
This action is for collision between, the schooner pilot boat Hermit and the steamship Monterey, shortly after 4 a. m. of December 15, 1906, and some few miles to the southward of the Sandy Hobk Lightship. By the collision the Hermit became a total loss; the Monterey was uninjured.
The testimony has been wholly taken by deposition, and this decision is rendered without the court’s seeing or hearing any witness, and therefore without the great advantage always gained therefrom.
I am of opinion that the wind at and before the time of collision was a light breeze, sufficient,…
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