The Komuk

Citations

• 120 F. 841
• 1903 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 377

Syllabus

<p>1. Collision — Steam Vessel and Barge in Tow — Want of Lookout and-Failure to Observe Towing Lights.</p> <p>A steam lighter which was navigating New York Bay in the night without a lookout, and which attempted to pass close under the stern of a tug, although the latter carried lights indicating a tow astern, and in so doing came into collision .with a barge in tow of the tug, helé in fault for such collision.</p> <p>2. Same — Contributory Fault — Absence of Lights on Tow Required by Pilot Rules.</p> <p>When a barge injured in a collision in the night in New York Bay while in tow of a tug was not carrying the lights on the bow and stern required by rule 11 of the pilot rules, the burden rests upon her and the tug to prove that such violation of the rule did not contribute to the collision.</p>