ADMIRALTY COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 9

ADMIRALTY COURT

BLENHEIM-OPAWA COLLISION. Reserved judgment was delivered yes.terday:;;nfomjnK by His Honour Sir. Justices Hosking in an Admiralty Court case, which embodied a claim by the owners of the small steamer Blenheim (Johnston and Co.) against, the owner of the steamer Opawa (Captain Eckford),for £02 15s. lOd., as damages done to the Blenheim in a collision with tho Op?wa, in the Opawa River (Marl-, borough) on the night of March fi. During the hearing of the case it appeared that each" party alleged that the. mishap was due to the other having taken the .wrong course. Mr. T. C. A. , Hislop: appeared for the,plaintiffs, and Mr. M. Myers for the' defendants. In the course of his judgment His Honour, ■ after referring to the conflicting nature of the evidence, cxDressed tho . opinion that some of the evidence given for the .plaintiffs .must be. negatived'., and plaintiffs were not entitled to 'succeed. In His Honour's opinion. -the mishap was attributable to the improper change of course on tho part of the Blenheim in the. channel. Judgment Lwould be for the defendant (Captain Eckford, owner of the- Opawa) with costs to be taxed on the Admiralty scale. ■...-•. Council informed tlio Court that costs could probably be agreed upon without reference to tho Registrar.