Legal Opinion
The Velma Brooks
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided April 19, 1933No. Nos. 1867, 1868PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
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CHESNUT, District Judge.
In broad daylight, on a fine summer morning, with a calm sea and ample seaway, two vessels, one a steam freighter heavily laden with a cargo of sugar, and the other a much smaller power boat, collided in the Chesapeake Bay off the mouth of the Potomac river. The power boat promptly sank with her cargo of tin cans, all her crew being rescued by the freighter. The time was June 28, 1931, at 10-:11 a. m.
In these circumstances it is highly probable that either the steamer or the power boat was seriously at fault; and possible, although less probable, both were at…
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