The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad Cases in the Courts of Last Resort in America and EnglandLawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson Edward Thompson Company, 1891 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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Strana 52 - ... negligence was imputed to a tug master on the ground that, although he had notice that the lighter in tow would be unable to encounter safely the heavy seas to be expected in such weather as prevailed, he had left a sheltered place and continued the voyage. In Atkinson v. Scully (1917; DC) 246 Fed. 463, where the action was brought to recover damages for the death of the captain of a barge which had drifted away and foundered during a gale, the liability of the tug was affirmed on the ground...