The Arrow’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““We do not think that the navigation of the vessels when encountering each other at Horn’s Hook was to be coni rolled by the starboard hand rule for vessels on crossing courses, although at some time their respective head-v lugs were such that their courses if prolonged would cross. The Supreme Court, in The Victory and The Plymothian. 168 U. S. 410 , 18 Sup. Ct. 149 , 42 L. Ed. 519 , held that the starboard hand rule is ordinarily inapplicable to vessels coming around bends in channels, which may at times bring one vessel on the starboard of the other; that vessels must be known to follow the courses of the river bank; that, although vessels navigating in a river may sometimes be on crossing courses under the rule, that depends on their presumable courses; that the question always turns on the reasonable inference to be drawn as to a vessel’s future course from her position at a particular moment, and this greatly depends on the nature of the locality where she is at that moment. We are not satisfied that it is safe and proper presumption that a vessel hound down the Harlem River which has reached the bight above Horn’s Hook, keeping along the New York shore on her way down, is going to take the easterly rather than the westerly channel to pasa Blackwell’s Island. Either course is open to her. A vessel coming up the river in that locality is ‘meeting’ a vessel coming clown, and, if she wishes 'to navigate on the theory that the vessel she is meeting is going to cross over at”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Lexington