Thurlow v. United States

MORTON, District Judge.

This is a case of a collision in a fog between the navy collier Jupiter and the four-masted schooner Horatio G. Foss. The present suit is brought under a special act of' *906Congress approved May 15, 1922 (chapter 191), and is to be determined, as stated in the act, “upon the same principle and measure of liability, with costs, as. in like cases in admiralty between private parties.” 42 Stat. 1589. The collision occurred about 6:40 p. m. on May 18, 1918, on the high seas, at a point 15 or 18 miles southeast of Winter Quarters Shoal lightship. The facts as to it are but…