The Harrisburg
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The following is the case, as stated by the court.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The following is the case, as stated by the court. This is ■& suit in rem begun in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, on the 25th of February, 1882,-agair-t the Steamer Harrisburg, by the widow and child of Silas E. Rickards, deceased, to recover damages for life death caused by the negligence of the steamer in a collision with the schooner Marietta Tilton, on the 16th of May, 1877, about one hundred yards from the Cross Rip Light Ship, in a sound of the…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. Chief Justice Waite,
after mailing the foregoing statement of the case, delivered the opinion of the court.. The question to be decided presents itself in three aspects, which may be stated as follows:
1. Can a suit in admiralty be maintained in the courts of the United States to recover damages for the death of a human being on the high seas, or waters navigable from the sea, caused by negligence, in the absence of an act of Congress, or a statute of a State, giving a right of action therefor?
2. If not, can a suit in rem be maintained in admiralty against an offending vessel for the…
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