Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 10.djvu/306

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294 FEDERAL REPORTBR. �tages. It further appears that the lamp bas been otherwise adver- tised. If sales have not actually been made, such a wrong is threat- ened, and that is sufficient to call for an injunction. Bilmp, Law of Patents, 294; Poppenlmsen v. Gutta Percha Co. 2 Fish. 74. Nor is the assertion of the defendant in bis affidavit, that he bas no inten- tion of making or selling any of said lamps during the pendency of this suit, a good reason for withholding an injunction. The com- plainants are not obliged to rest their interest on the mere assertion of the defendant that he will not repeat the act of infringement. Bump, Law of Patents, 295 ; Jenkins v. Greenwald, 2 Fish, 37. The motion for a preliminary injunction is granted. ���The Ant. (District Court, B. New Jersey. Febi-uary 3, 1882.) �1. CotusioN. �A steamer with a long tow, about to pass another steamer, also with a tow, is bound to avoid the latter. �2. SaMB— LOOKOUT. �Steamers navigating on the thoroughfares of commerce are bound to have a lookout, independently of the helmsman. �3. SAMB— LiGHTS. �Steam-vessels, " when towing other vessela," must exhibit two bright white mast-head lights vertically, in addition to their aide lights ; and all vessels, whether steam or sail vessels, ■when lying at anohor in roadsteads or fair-ways, must exhibit a white light in a globular lantern at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull. In navigation a vessel aground is in circumstances sina- ilar to a vessel at anchor, and a steamer aground should exhibit the single light required of steamers at anchor. 4 Damages Divided. �Where both steamers contributed to the collision the damages will be divided. �In Admiralty. Libel in rem. �Beebe, Wilcox & Hobbs, for libellants. �S. H. Valeniine, (with whom was R. D. Benedict,) for claimants. �Nixon, D. J. The libel is iiled in this case to recover damages arising from a collision which took place about 2:30 o'clock on the morning of June 2, 1881, between Eobbins' reef and Bedloe's island, on the westerly side of the channel, in the bay of New York, between the street department scows in tow of the tug-boat Ant and the tug- boat C. J. Saxe, and two pontoona or wreckers in the tow of the said Saxe. ��� �