City of Washington
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
[In admiralty. Libel by Peter R. Baillie and others, owners of the pilot-boat John D. Jones, against the steamship City of Washington, to recover for the loss of the pilot-boat by collision. The district court decreed in favor of the libellants (Case No. 2,770), and the Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Company, claimant of the steamship, appeals.]
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
The preponderance of the evidence is, 1 think, clearly in support of the decree made in the court below. The pilot-boat, by her flash light, was seen from the City of Washington at a distance of several miles, and the testimony of the second officer and of the wheelsman of the steamship both show that they saw her movements, and saw that her course was such as would cross the course of the steamship. Other testimony from the pilot-boat shows that the repeated exhibition of the flash light must have apprized those on the steamer of her movement in that direction; and…
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