Knowlton v. Sanford
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Case. The plaintiffs shipped goods on board the schooner Brandywine, bound from Boston to Bangor. When arrived in the Penobscot river, the schooner anchored, one evening, in Bucksport eddy. While there at anchor, the next morning, she was run into and sunk by the steamer Penobscot, owned by the defendants. To recover for the damage thereby done to the plaintiffs’ goods, this action is brought.
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Case. The plaintiffs shipped goods on board the schooner Brandywine, bound from Boston to Bangor. When arrived in the Penobscot river, the schooner anchored, one evening, in Bucksport eddy. While there at anchor, the next morning, she was run into and sunk by the steamer Penobscot, owned by the defendants. To recover for the damage thereby done to the plaintiffs’ goods, this action is brought. In relation to the extent of the damage, the parties submitted to the decision of referees, stipulating, however, that the submission should have no influence upon the question of the right of action.…
1Opinion of the CourtHoward, J.
The plaintiffs shipped a quantity of goods, at Boston, on board the schooner Brandywine, to be delivered at Hampden, on the Penobscot river. While the schooner lay at anchor in the harbor and bay of Bucksport, on the river, the steamer Penobscot came into collision with her, producing a breach in her side, and causing her to sink, with all her cargo on board, in fifteen or twenty minutes. The schooner and cargo were afterward raised, and the plaintiffs, and other owners of the cargo, submitted, in writing, the question of damages to the appraisal of thee men, mutually selected by themselves…
2Cited by1 opinion
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