Merchants & Miners Transp. Co. v. New England Dredging Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a libel by the New England Dredging Company against the steamer D. F. Miller, the Merchants & Miners Transportation Company, claimant, to recover damages resulting from two collisions of the steamer with the libelant’s barge or dredge. The district court rendered a decree for the libelant, and the claimant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This appeal relates to two collisions between a steamer coming out of, and afterwards entering, Boston Harbor, and a barge engaged in deepening a channel under the authority of the state of Massachusetts, and secured by spuds in the respective positions of doing her work, at points inconveniently near ike whaif of the steamer. The collisions occurred in open daylight, and without any special stress of tide or weather. The steamer has rested her case on the propositions that she was navigated with prudence and skill, and that the harge was in fault in certain particulars,…
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