Iowa Railroad Contracting Company, The, Ochiltree v. 158 McGlynn et al., Kiely et al. v. (Case of Broderick's Will), 1 521 276 302 500 205 558 616 17 98 264 แ Land Company v. Courtright, Rochereau, Dupasseur v. Rodd v. Heartt (The Lottawanna), Sacramento, City of, v. Fowle, . Schulenberg et al. v. Harriman, et al. Railroad Company v. Southern Express Company v. Caldwell, Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Sea, . 158 Stewart, Maxwell v. Taylor, Watson, Assignee v. 71 138 Vaillant, Lessee of Doe v. Childress, Vannevar v. Bryant, Vermilye & Co. v. Adams Express Company, Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad Co., Jackson v. 616 DECISIONS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, OCTOBER TERM, 1874. THE LADY PIKE. 1. Though on appeals in admiralty, involving issues of fact alone, this court will not, except in a clear case, reverse where both the District and the Circuit Court have agreed in their conclusions, yet in a clear case it will reverse even in such circumstances. 2. The master of a steamer which undertakes to tow boats up and down a river where piers of bridges impede the navigation, is bound to know the width of his steamers and their tows, and whether, when lashed together, he can run them safely between piers through which he attempts to pass. He is bound also, if it is necessary for his safe navigation in the places where he chooses to be, to know how the currents set about the piers in different heights of the water, and to know whether, at high water, his steamers and their tows will safely pass over an obstruction which, in low water, they could not pass over. ?. The owners of steamers undertaking to tow vessels are responsible for accidents, the result of want of proper knowledge, on the part of their captains, of the difficulties of navigation in the river in which the steamers ply. APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The Germania Insurance Company had insured a cargo of wheat, laden on a barge at Shockopee, on the Minnesota River, and about to be towed by the steamer Lady Pike down that river to its junction with the Mississippi, thence down the Mississippi to Savannah, Illinois; "unavoidable dangers of the river... only excepted." The cargo was laden on the barge, and the transportation VOL. XXI. 1 (1) |