The Anna W.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York; Thomas I. Chatfield, Judge. Suits in admiralty by Jared Griffing, as owner of the schooner Daylight, and by the President and Directors of the Insurance Company of North America, against the steam tug Anna W. Decrees for libel (181 Fed. 604), and the claimant, the National Dredging Company of Wilmington, Delaware, appeals.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York; Thomas I. Chatfield, Judge. Suits in admiralty by Jared Griffing, as owner of the schooner Daylight, and by the President and Directors of the Insurance Company of North America, against the steam tug Anna W. Decrees for libel (181 Fed. 604), and the claimant, the National Dredging Company of Wilmington, Delaware, appeals. This cause conies here upon appeals by the claimant from decrees of the District Court, Southern District of New York, holding the Anna W. solely in fault for a collision between her…
1Opinion of the CourtLacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It must be taken as a fact in the case that from the time they sighted each other the schooner held her course until she hardported aS the tug reached her bow. Her witnesses say she did, the probabilities are *60that a privileged vessel would do so, and there is not a scrap of evidence to the contrary.
The pilot of the tug brought her down on a course close to the schooner. He says he cleared her by 100 feet; other witnesses make the distance 25 feet. Whether we split the difference and call it 50 feet, which it probably was, since on this dark night he…
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