The Emperor

Citations

• 115 F. 447
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 237

Syllabus

<p>1. Collision — Sailing Vessel and Tug with Tow — Improper Maneuver.</p> <p>Evidence considered, and held to show that a collision in East river between a sailing lighter and a car float, projecting ahead of the tug by which it was being towed, resulted from the lighter’s going about on the other tack nearly in front of the tug and tow, and, failing to fill at once, being drifted by the tide against the float, which had stopped, and was making sternway at the time, and that the lighter was in fault for such maneuver, and contributed to her injury.</p> <p>2. Same — Violation oe Statute.</p> <p>A tug navigating with her tow too near the Brooklyn shore, in passing down East river, in violation of the statute, where its observance was possible, though not convenient, must be held in fault for a collision there occurring, although she was not otherwise in fault.</p>