Alioto v. Imahashi

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree in admiralty holding at fault appellant’s tuna fishing boat, The Dependable, for a collision between it and another tuna fishing boat, The Taiyo. The amount of damage remained for further determination.

The collision occurred at a time when both vessels were fishing for tuna on the Outer Gorda Bank, about six miles southeast of Gorda Point and twenty-two miles northeast of Cape San Lucas, at the end of the Lower California Peninsula, on the morning of July 16, 1938 at about 10 o’clock a. m. The weather was clear, there was no…