Soper v. Pareis

The course of the schooner is proved to have been directly up the North river, or one point to the eastward of the course of the river. The difference of one point would not be important. The case turns upon the course of the tug; for if the course of the tug was the same as that of the schooner, or within one point of the course of the schooner, the schooner, which broke ground below the tug, was the following vessel, and bound to avoid the tug. If, on the other hand, the tug’s course was crossing that of the schooner, the obligation to avoid the schooner rested upon the tug, and she was in…