The Vera
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Suits for collision by W. Irving Pearce, owner of the schooner Malcolm Baxter, Jr., against the steamship Vera, the steamship Melrose impleaded; by Dampskibs Actieselskabet International, owner of the steamship Vera, against W. Irving Pearce and others; same against the steamship Melrose; and by New England Coal & Coke Company, owner of the Melrose, against the Vera.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, Circuit Judge.
[1,2 j On January 18, 1910, the four-masted schooner Malcolm Baxter, Jr., entering Boston Harbor, .with a cargo of coal on board, from Norfolk, anchored below Castle Island and to the north of Spectacle Island, between 5 and 6 o’clock in the afternoon. The wind at the time was moderate, from S. by W. to S. W. The tide had been ebbing since about 5 o’clock. After swinging to her anchor, the schooner headed in a southwesterly direction, the stern being toward the channel. She lay near the southerly side of the navigable channel up and down the harbor. Whether or not she in…
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