The Mamie
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. On petition of owners for limitation of liability. The petition amended set forth—First, that petitioners are and were, at the time of the collision hereinafter mentioned, the sole owners of the steam-yacht Mamie, a vessel enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and engaged in commerce and navigation between ports and places in different states and territories, and foreign countries, upon the great lakes, and the navigable waters connecting the same.
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In Admiralty. On petition of owners for limitation of liability. The petition amended set forth—First, that petitioners are and were, at the time of the collision hereinafter mentioned, the sole owners of the steam-yacht Mamie, a vessel enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and engaged in commerce and navigation between ports and places in different states and territories, and foreign countries, upon the great lakes, and the navigable waters connecting the same. Second, that on the evening of Inly 22, 1880, a collision occurred in the Detroit river between the Mamie, then on a trip…
1Opinion of the Court
Beown, D. J.
The Mamie was purchased by her present owners in October, 1877, as a steam pleasure yacht. She was an enrolled and licensed vessel of 15£ tons burden, 51 feet in length, 9¿- feet in breadth, and 4 feet deep. She had one mast, and an engine with a cylinder of eight-inch stroke, no state-rooms or sleeping hunks, hut a small cabin in which to carry passengers. She was used by her owners, who were members of the “Lake St. Clair Shooting and Fishing Club,” and was occasionally let for hire to pleasure parties, picnics, and excursions up and down the Detroit river, nearly always upon…
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