Shute v. Goslee

CAMPBELL, Circuit Justice.

These are cross appeals from a decree of the district court, pronouncing a division of the damages sustained by the respective parties in a case of collision. In February, 1851, the steamboat Autocrat, (of the largest class,) bound on a voyage up the Mississippi river, had a collision with the steamboat Magnolia, <of the same class,) near Butler’s plantation, in. the parish of Iberville, and was sunk, occasioning the death of several persons and the loss of the boat. The libel charges that the-Magnolia was seen rounding out from Robertson’s wood-yard, on the east…