Jett v. Texas Co.

RODNEY, District Judge.

This cause in admiralty has for its setting the lower Delaware Bay opposite the town of Lewes, Delaware. Among other peculiarities of the case is the insistence of the respondent that its vessel, the Buena Vista, was not concerned in any accident or collision with the boat of the libelant and that there was no physical impact of the vessels, as the libel alleges. That a physical impact of the vessels was actually had must be held by me as a matter of fact, as hereinafter considered, and the determination of the cause of the collision is the principal object of this…