Winsor v. Ayer
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a case of collision off the coast of New Hampshire or Massachusetts, between the deeply-laden lumber schooner John T. Williams and the fishing schooner Metamora running light, in which the Williams was sunk. The District Court held that the Metamora was alone in fault, and decreed the entire damages against her. The collision, as found by the learned district judge, occurred about quarter past 6 o’clock on a December evening, when the night was clear, the moon three days old, setting at quarter past 7, with the wind strong to the northwest, and on the open ocean.…
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