The Victory & the Plymothian
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS EOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. On the twelfth day of November, 1891, the steamers Victory and Piymothian came into collision in the Elizabeth River between Lambert’s Point and Craney Island Light. The Piy-mothian, laden with a cargo of cotton, was outward bound. The Victory was inward bound in ballast. The Piymothian and her cargo were seriously damaged. The Victory was also damaged about the bows.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS EOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. On the twelfth day of November, 1891, the steamers Victory and Piymothian came into collision in the Elizabeth River between Lambert’s Point and Craney Island Light. The Piy-mothian, laden with a cargo of cotton, was outward bound. The Victory was inward bound in ballast. The Piymothian and her cargo were seriously damaged. The Victory was also damaged about the bows. On the fourteenth of November, the master of the Victory filed a libel against the Piymothian in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ; and on…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
The District Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals concurred in finding the Victory grossly in fault, and we see no reason for arriving at any other conclusion. In our opinion the collision was the direct consequence of the Victory’s disregard of the rule of the road and her reckless navigation.
In any aspect of the case, the rule of the road was to keep to the right.
By rule eighteen of the regulations prescribed by the act of April 29,1864, carried forward in section 4233 of the Bevised Statutes, “ if two vessels under steam.are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of…
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