568
FEDERAL REPORTER.
mony seems to show, has abandoned his claim. Let a decree in favor of the libelants, in accordance with this opinion, be entered. The libel· ants must also recover the costs.
THE SAMMm. THE CITY OF SPRlNGFIELD. HARTFORD & N. Y. TRANSP. CO. v. THE SAMMIE et al. LUTHER et al. 1. fl.
THE CITY OF SPRINGFJEl.O et al. October 15,1888.)
(Oircuit Oourt, 8. D. New York.
COLLISION-KEEPING OUT OF THE WAY-SAFE MARGIN-TIDE CURRENTS·
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.A. steamer bound to keep out of the way must. at her own peril, shape hel" course for a safe margin against the contingencies of navigation, and the effects of tide currents. Held, in this case, that the conflict in the evidence was probably in part to be explained by the westward set of the flood-tide off Twenty-Third street, which changed to the westward the course of the S., a steamer 300 feet long, as she struck the current, and that the collision was by her fault only.
SAME-TUG AND TOW-SUDDEN BACKING-PARTING LINES-ERROR OF JUDGMENT IN EXTREMIS.
The collision bdng with a heavy car-float in tow along-side a tug, and the S. contending that the float had broken loose from the tug just before the collision, through the tug's too sudden backing, which the tug denied, held that, even if the lines were parted. as alleged. before the colliRion, the tug's backing was made necessary by the fault>f theS. when the danger was imminent, and that the error. if there was any error, was one of judgment, under the excitement of the moment, and not a legal fault. .
In Admiralty. On appeal from district court. See 29 Fed. Rep. 923. Cross-libels for collision by Thomas B. Luther and others, claimants of the steam-tug Sammie, against the Hartford & New York Transportation Company, claimant of the steamer City of Springfield. A decree · was rendered dismissing the libel against the Sammie, and sustaining that againstthe City of Springfield. Franklin A. Wilcox and Goo. B. Adams, for Hartford & New York · Transportation Company. E. D. McCarthy, for Luther et aZ. LACOMBE, J. It is that if each vessel had kept her course ·after sighting they would have passed safely. The district judge found, amid much conflicting testimony given by witnesses whom he saw and heurd, that the Springfield changed her course so as to get. from the Brooklyn side of mid-river into the Sammie's water, and that the Sammie did DOt her course, or, at least, did not change it sufficiently to bring her to the eastward of the track which, by the first ex,change of signa:ls,she was justified in following. The new testimony
MORRISON
v.
I. & V. FLORIO S. S. CO.
569
only goes to show: First. That one supposed contributing cause of the Springfield's change of position (to-wit, the tide) was not as efficient as the district judge supposed. Second. That when a tug with a car-float lashed to its side has to carry a starboard helm, in order to keep her course, the effect of suddenly letting her helm run amidships will be to give her a swing to starboard. This fact in navigatiori was no doubt well enough known to the district judge without any testimony. Third. Persons who, two years before testifying, had seen the hole in the bow of the City of Springfield, gave evidence as to the appearance of the wreckage, and to their opinions as to the relative positions of the steamer and the car-float at the moment of collision. There is nothing in this to call for any modification of the decree of the district court, which is thereforeafllrmed.
'MORRISON
r.
& V.
FWRIO
S. S. Co.
(DiBtrict Court, D. New JM'8611. November 3, 1888.)
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SHIPPING-CARRIAGE OF GooDs-DELAY IN DELIVERy-RISE IN MARKET.
A cargo of prunes. which should have been delivered not later than April 28th, was, by the of respondent. not delivered until June 11th, and then in a damaged condition. They were sold JUly 8th, on which day the market price for sound prunes was 6 cents per pound, but on account of their damaged condition a portion of the prunes brought only lit cents. The market price on April 28th, when they should have been delivered, was 5 cents. Held. that libelant was entitled to recover the difference between the market price on the day of delayed delivery and the. price for which the damaged prunes spld. Respondent cannot be allowed to escape liability by reason of the advance in price in the interval between the dates of required and actual delivery. . Respondent has no cause to complain of the delay in making sale of tho damaged prunes. It was the libelant's duty to prevent a sacrifice. and to. obtain the best market price, and it does not appear that an unteasonable length of time was taken to do this.
SAME-SALE FOR ACCOUNT OF VESSEL-DELAY.
3.
SAME-REBATE IN CUSTOMS DUTIES.
The amount of rebate of duties allowed to the libelant at the custom-houso was the customary one allowed on all fruit cargoes, and had no reference to the damages caused by respondent's negligence; hence respondent was not entitled to the benefit of it.
In Admiralty. On exceptions to commissioner's report. Libel filed by Richard J. Morrison, as administrator, against the I. & V. Florio Steam-Ship Company. There was a decree for libelant, and a reference to ascertain the damages; reported BUb nom. Mina v. SteamShip 00., 23 Fed. Rep. 915. Wing, Shoody Putnam, for libelant. Ullo, Ruebsamen « Hubbs, for respondents. WALES, J. This case was referred to Linsly Rowe, Esq., commieeioner, to ascertain and report the amount of damages, if any, suffered