The Senator Sullivan

Citations

• 117 F. 176
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69

Syllabus

<p>1. Collision—Theory—Impossibility.</p> <p>A contention, in an action for collision, between a steamer and a scftooner, that the steamer crossed the schooner’s bow, and changed her course within the limits of a few hundred feet, so as to strike the starboard bow of the schooner at a right angle, should be rejected as unreasonable and impossible.</p> <p>2. Same—Evidence.</p> <p>Where, in an action for collision between a steamer and a schooner, the evidence of the officers of each as to the courses of the other and their courses could not be harmonized with the happening of the collision, and the wheel of the schooner was controlled by a young man, whose evidence showed that he had no knowledge of navigation, it will be held, that the collision resulted from the fault of the schooner’s helmsman.</p>