The Morning Light
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the decree in admiralty of the Circuit Court of the United States for. the Southern District uf‘New York. About the 6th of August, 18.55, the brigs Jerry Fowler and Morning Light, in a dark and rainy night, were pursuing a voyage off the coast of Rhode Island through Buzzard’s Bay and-Martha’s Vineyard, eastward, with the wind from the northeast, the Jerry Bowler being the head vessel and the Morning Light in her rear, both vessels running on 'their starboard…
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Appeal from the decree in admiralty of the Circuit Court of the United States for. the Southern District uf‘New York. About the 6th of August, 18.55, the brigs Jerry Fowler and Morning Light, in a dark and rainy night, were pursuing a voyage off the coast of Rhode Island through Buzzard’s Bay and-Martha’s Vineyard, eastward, with the wind from the northeast, the Jerry Bowler being the head vessel and the Morning Light in her rear, both vessels running on 'their starboard tacks on about a common course. At 4 o’clock in the morning of that day a collision occurred between them, the stem or bows…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This- case is brought here by appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, sitting in admiralty.
Appellants were the insurers of the brig Jeremiah Fowler, which was lost on the 24th day of August, 1855, while on a voyage from the port of Philadelphia to the port of Boston., Allegations of the libel are, that she was loaded with coal, and-that after she had arrived,in Block Island-channel, and while she was beating in towards Yineyard Sound, she was negligently and wrongfully run into- by the .brig Morning Light and sunk, and that the…
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