The Mary C. Elphicke

Citations

• 115 F. 375
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 223

Syllabus

<p>Collision — Steamships Meeting — Failure to Change Course.</p> <p>Under Article 17 of the rules for navigation on the Great Lakes it Is the duty of each of two steamers meeting end on, or nearly end on, as soon as signals have been exchanged for passing port to port, to change her course to starboard, and a failure to do so, where there is nothing to prevent, is a fault; but the failure of one vessel to do so will not excuse the other for a failure to make a sufficient change in her own course to avoid danger of collision when it can safely be done, and she will be held equally in fault for a collision which she might thus have prevented, although she did in fact make such a change in her course as would have avoided the collision if the other vessel had done likewise.</p>