Phinney v. The Le Lion
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
This was a libel against the master of the barge Atlas against the steamship Le Lion, and a cross libel hv the master of the latter, to recover damages growing out of a collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BUTLER, District Judge.
About 8 o’clock of March 24, 1895, the barge, in tow of the tug Shawmut, on her way from Boston to Philadelphia, anchored in the Delaware Bay, inside the capes, near the center of the channel, — which is upwards of four miles wide at this point. She put up the usual white light forward, and left her stern light, which had been up previously, burning. The tug anchored the fourth of a mile further up. A proper anchor watch was set upon the barge, and she remained in this situation, her stem swinging up stream, with the incoming tide, until near midnight. At that time the…
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