The Benefactor
District Court, E.D. New York
[In admiralty. Libel in rem by the owners of the schooner Susan Wright against the steamship Benefactor (the New York & Wilmington Steamship Company, claimants) for collision. A separate libel was filed by the crew of the schooner for the loss of personal effects, and a petition of intervention by the owners of the schooner’s cargo to recover value of the same.
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[In admiralty. Libel in rem by the owners of the schooner Susan Wright against the steamship Benefactor (the New York & Wilmington Steamship Company, claimants) for collision. A separate libel was filed by the crew of the schooner for the loss of personal effects, and a petition of intervention by the owners of the schooner’s cargo to recover value of the same. Decree for libel-lants and interveners, the damages in the aggregate being assessed at $61,810.49. [Subsequently an appeal was taken to the circuit court, where this decree was affirmed, (Case No. 1,298,) and on appeal to the supreme…
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
These are actions to recover of the steamship Benefactor the sum of $145.113.00 for the loss of the schooner Susan Wright and her cargo, lost in a collision which occurred between these two vessels on the 26th of February, 1875. The place of the collision was off Squam beach, about two miles off shore. The time of the collision was about ten o’clock in the morning. The weather was fine and clear. There were no vessels near to interfere with the navigation. The steamer was bound outward from New York, running some ten knots an hour, and the schooner was bound to New…
2Cited by1 opinion
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