The B. B. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
19 F. 118 · 1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1909
1 federal appellate · 7 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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Relies on The Pennsylvania · The Morning Light · The Johnson · The Florence P. Hall · The Grand Republic
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““The claimant alleges that the said steam-tug B. B. Saunders, having fastened the said canal-boat securely to her port side at pier 40, North river, proceeded out into the river until she was nearly in the middle thereof, and then she proceeded down the river with an ebb-tide on a course about parallel with the course of the river; that having reached a point about opposite the foot of Beach street, those in charge of the B. B. Saunders discovered the steamboat Orient emerging from the pier at the foot of Harrison street, pier 84, North river; that the Orient was then distant from the B. B. Saunders from one-tliird to one-half a mile, and bore between three and four points on the port bow of the B. B. Saunders, and was on a course about due west; that the B. B. Saunders continued on her course down the river, and very soon thereafter the said steam-boat Orient blew a signal of two blasts of her steam-whistle to the B. B. Saunders, which signified to those on board the B. B. Saunders that the Orient desired to pass across the river in front of the B. B. Saunders; that the pilot of the B. B. Saunders thereupon gave a signal to the engineer of his vessel to slow her engines; but almost instantly, and before the said pilot had time to do anything further, the said steam-boat Orient blew a signal of one blast of her steam-whistle, which signified to those on board the B. B. Saunders that the Orient intended to pass under the stern of the B. B. Saunders; that the pilot of the B. B.”
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