Donald v. Guy
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit to recover damages arising from alleged neglect of pilot. On the early morning of the 14th of January, 1901, a collision occurred in Chesapeake Bay, near Thimble Light, between the George Churchman, a three-masted schooner, and the steamship Santuit, at the time in charge of respondent Guy, a member of the Virginia Pilot Association.
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In Admiralty. Suit to recover damages arising from alleged neglect of pilot. On the early morning of the 14th of January, 1901, a collision occurred in Chesapeake Bay, near Thimble Light, between the George Churchman, a three-masted schooner, and the steamship Santuit, at the time in charge of respondent Guy, a member of the Virginia Pilot Association. Subsequently to the collision, upon threatened suit by the Churchman against the Santuit, the latter adjusted and paid the damages occasioned by such collision, amounting to $3,175, and Donald, the owner of the Santuit, afterwards filed this…
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
This case is now before the court upon its merits, the legal questions having been determined as heretofore stated. The sole question at this stage is, whose fault brought about the collision? and in this connection it should be borne in mind that the Santuit, having elected to pay the damages sustained by the Churchman without legally contesting the question of fault, must make out its case against the respondents with the same definiteness and certainty that the Churchman would have been required to establish its case in a suit against the Santuit.
At the time of the…
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