A/B SVENSKA AMERIKA LINIEN v. STANDARD OIL CO.

No. 338.

105 F.2d 924 (1939)

A/B SVENSKA AMERIKA LINIEN v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 17, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City (W. H. McGrann, Ira A. Campbell, J. Harvey Turnure, and Eugene F. Gilligan, all of New York City, of counsel), for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and The A. C. Bedford.

Haight, Griffin, Deming & Gardner, of New York City (John W. Griffin and W. Parker Sedgwick, both of New York City, of counsel), for libelant-appellee.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the liabilities arising out of a collision on the high seas, not far east of the Nantucket Lightship, in full daylight but in a fog, between the tanker, "Bedford", and the passenger steamer, "Kungsholm". The Bedford was heading north two degrees east; the Kungsholm, due west — 270° true — their courses were therefore at right angles. The Kungsholm's bow struck the Bedford on her starboard side a little...

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