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vol. 42. CO. V. CAPITOL CITY MANOF·'a CO.
CoLLINS CHEMICAL
& MANUF'G
(Oircuit Court, D. Connecticut.. May 1, 1890.) TRADB-MARKS-INFRINGEMENT-PRACTICE.
Where, in suit for the infringement of a trade-mark, exhibits of the devices used by both complainant and defendant accompany the bill, the court will sustain a demurrer to the bill where the exllibits show that there is no infringement.
In Equity. On demurrer to bill. H. A. West, for plaintiff. A. II. Walker, for defendant. SHIPMAN, J. The complainants' bill for an alleged infringement of their trade-mark makes profert of the trade-mark, and of the alleged infringement, and exhibits of the boxes and the devices, and symbols thereon, which are used by each party accompany the bill. The defendant has demurred, upon the ground that the plaintiffs' bill shows that they have no case. Upon the hearing of the demurrer the complainants did not appear. An inspection of the boxes shows palpably that there is no infringement. The demurrer is sustained.
THE ALBANY. (District Oourt, D. Massachusetts. April 17, 1890.) SALVAGE-COMPENSATION.
As the steamer P. was entering Massachusetts bay, at sunrise, the coal-barge A. was sighted three miles to the windward, apparently in distress. The P. changed its course,and took the A. in tow. The A. had been left at 1 o'clock in the morning by the B., it being the rear of a tow being taken to Boston, and the hawser having broken in the rough sea. When found the wind was high, her rudder was disabled, her sails useless, heavy seas were washing over her, and her hatches in danget of being oarried away. She was towed by theP. to a place of safety, and left· the B. having returned an,d met them. The cargo of the P. was worth $147,000, and she was delayed 11 hours. The A. and oargo were worth $20,700, and was towed with great diffioulty, from the roughness of the sea and the loss of her rudder. HeUL, that the P. should be allowed $4,000, the amount being increased by the attempted defenses that theA. was not in great peril, was not taken to a place of safety, and that the P. agreed to bring her in at towage rates, which were shown to be false by the testimony of the master, who, though swearing to the answer, said he did not know it contained snch statements.
.In Admiralty. Shattuck &:- Munroe, for libelant. E. P. (hrver, for claimant. NELSON, J. As the steam-ship Parthian, of the Boston & Philadelphia Line, was entering Massachusetts bay, at sunrise on the morning of November 3, 1889, bound for Boston, the wind being southerly, the chief officer sighted from the bridge, about three miles to windward,
THE ALBANY,'
the c<tetl-barge Albany, alone, and apparently in distress. The course of the Parthian was thereupon changed l and she bore up until she came within hailing distance of the barge, and, after some interchange of inquiries between the officers of the two vessels, the barge was taken in tow by the Parthian, and brought into Boston harbor,.arriving inside Boston light about 6 o'clock P. M. When off the Hardings, the steam-tug Britannia was met, which assisted in the towage from that point. It appeared that the Albany left New York on October 28th, having on board 1,200 tons of coal, together with other coal-barges, in tow of the steamtug Britannia, bound for Boston. At about 1 o'clock on the morning of November 3d, when off Race point, the sea being rough, and the wind blowing a heavy gale, the hawser parted. The Albany being the rear barge of the tow, and it being extremely difficult to make a new connection , the tug proceeded on her way to Boston with the other barges, leaving the Albany adrift, intending afterwards to return and bring her in. In· the mean time she was fourtd by the Parthian, as above stated. , The answer sets up that at the time the Parthian came up, the barge was proceeding to'Yards 'Boston under sail, and was not in any great peril; that the Parthian did not finally leave her in a place of safety, but left her in a much worse position than when she first took her in tow; and that the master of the Parthian agreed to tow her in at towago rates. These were false, and were disproved by all the evidence ip. the case, the testimony of the master of the barge, by whom; the answer was sworn to. The master testified at. the hearing that he was not aware, when he made oath to the answer, that it contained those statements, but the proctor for the owners informed the court that the answer was prepared from the master's own account of what occurred. The barge was in the greatest peril. The wind was blowing a gale, and the sea was very rough. She was lying in the trough of the sea, her rudder disabled, the small sails which spe carried useless. Heavy seas were washing over her deck, and her hatches were in danger of being carried Her men were exhausted and discouraged. She was drifting and being blown out tosea. The barge was left by the Parthian inside Boston light, in smooth water, on good anchorage ground, in a place of perfect safety, and in charge of the tug. The hawser was finally cast off at the request of the master of the barge. The Parthian rendered the assistance at the request of the master of the barge, and without any agreement whatever as to the compensation she was to receive. It is manifest from all the evidence in the case, and especially from the testimony 'of the master of the barge, that the answer was not made in good faith, but was well known to the owners to be false and misleading.· This certainly indicates a purpose of concealing from the court the mag-, nitude of the peril in which the barge was placed. The towing by the Parthian was a matter of extreme difficulty, owing to the sheering of the barge from side to side, from want of a rudder to keep her in the wake of the steamer. A nine-inch hawser was parted in the towing. The Parthian was a large and valuable ship, and her cargo was valued at $147,000. Her voyage was delayed 11 hours. The value of theA!v.42F.no.1-5
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banyandher cargo were &20;700. Considering the 'peril the Albany 'was in, and also 'being of opinion that the compensation should be ,considerably , enhanced on account of the extraordinary character of the defense. I fix: the salvage at $4,000. A decree is to be entered for the libelants for thatatilount with costs. ' Ordered accordingly.
THE SACHEM.1 ,
;
J4NSEN
v.
THE SACHEM.
(DlBtrl.ctt;Jourt, E. D. New York. :March 28, 1890.) NhmN';';'PB:aS01UL INJURIES-NEGLIGENOEOF FELLOW-SERVANT.,
A vel!l8!l1 and her Qwners not negligence of another seaman.
for injuries to ,a seaman caused by ,
In Aamiralty. Actio\i for damages for personal inJuries· .A. E. Stewart, for libelant. ' , Wing;, Slwudy &: Putnam, for claimant. BENE:DICT, J. This is an action for personal injury, brought by one olthecrew,of the American ship Sachem. On January 11, 1888, while theap.ip was lying' at anchor in Bristol roads; the crew, under the di. recW>'n:sof the mate, undertook to rig in the jib-boom. ' After the headgear was slackened, and the head of the boom raised clear, the boom came in gradually, until it reached the inner jib guy band, where it iti the bowspritcs,tp. The, men not succeeding in clearing it, the went out himself, and tried to pry the boom clear with a crowbbOm would not come. The mate ordered the heel rope to bar, beta'kert' oft' the capstan, and made fast to the shank painter bitt on the port side; and tackle to be made fast to the capstan. One of the crew, named 'Scotty, held the heel rope at the bitt, and the others began heav-,' ingon the capstan.rrhe boom not starting, the mate, as the libelant says,' drdered Scotty cast theheel rope off, and then gave the end of ,booIil another pry with his bar, when the boom started, surged in, and caught the libelant's leg between it and one of the towing bitts, bre!lkil'lg tJ:1e leg. The mate declares that no order was given by him to cast oft the heel rope, and that, the accident was caused by the act of, Scotty' inC8;sting offthe heel rope without orders. , ' Upon the testimony, I think theW-eight of the evidence is to the effect thatSqotty let go the heel rope without orders from the mate. This being so, case is one of damage caused by negligence of a fellow-serv,. ant, fot :Which the libelant cannot recover. If it could be found, upon the testIm0I:lY, that injury of the resulted from the negligence ot the illate in directing the heel rope to be cast off, a question
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JRe}lortedby Edward G. Benedict, Esq., of the New York bar.