New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball
Supreme Court of the United States
.-This was an appeal from the Circuit-Court of thé United States for the southern, district of New York, sitting in admiralty. ■ The case is. fully stated in the opinion of the court. In cases of collision, it is difficult to make an abstract of the arguments of counsel, because the whole évidence is before the court, and resorted to by both sides in support of the positions which they respectively take.
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.-This was an appeal from the Circuit-Court of thé United States for the southern, district of New York, sitting in admiralty. ■ The case is. fully stated in the opinion of the court. In cases of collision, it is difficult to make an abstract of the arguments of counsel, because the whole évidence is before the court, and resorted to by both sides in support of the positions which they respectively take. The reporter can only state the points which were made, without the arguments to sustain them.' On the part'of the appellants, it was contended: 1. The collision was caused' by the brig. .…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This is an appeal in admiralty, from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York, in a cause of collision, civil and maritime. It was commenced in the District Court on the twenty-fourth day of September, 1851, by the appellee, in behalf of himself and the other owners of the brig “Alfaretta.” According to the case made in the libel, the Alfaretta sailed from Millbridge, in the State of Maine, on the tenth day of August, 1851, fully laden 'with lumber on freight, and bound on a voyage to the port of New York. She was ¡a tight, stanch, strong vessel…
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