The Mary S. Blees

Citations

• 120 F. 44
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18

Syllabus

<p>1. Collision — Steamer and Anchored Barge — Defense of Inevitable Accident.</p> <p>Evidence examined, and held not to sustain tbe defense of a steamer that her coming into collision with and sinking a barge moored in a proper place on the bank of a river, when the steamer was passing down the stream, was due to inevitable accident, but to show that the steamer was in fault for failing to exercise the foresight and precaution required of her under the circumstances, and for unnecessarily stopping and backing to “straighten up” before entering a narrow part of the channel, when in such a position that the wind and current carried her against the barge.</p>