Legal Opinion

The Georgiana

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided May 15, 1866PublishedCited by 2 opinions

In admiralty.

1Opinion of the Court

LOWELL, District Judge.

The brig America of-tons burden, and valued at about twenty thousand dollars, with a cargo the cost of which is not given, and manned by ten persons including officers, in the course of her voyage from Halifax to Boston, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1866, at about seventy miles from Cape Ann, namely, in latitude 42° 37', and longitude 68° 58', saw the schooner Georgiana drifting with her sails loose and dragging overboard, and her main-boom swinging. The appearance of the schooner was such as to attract attention, and the master of the brig went some two miles out…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Duff v. MerrittCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1898
  2. Gardner v. Ninety-Nine Gold CoinsDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1899

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