The Oliver
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty, in a cause of collision. The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
The schooner Mechanic was lying at anchor, when this collision occurred, in 11 or 12 feet of water, about two miles below Maryland Point, in the Potomac river, and about 125 yards inside the second red buoy below the Point. The place‘where she was lying is shown by the chart to be in a line drawn from the first of these buoys to the mouth of Nanjemoy creek. On this line the water; is shown by the chart to be nowhere less than 8^- feet, and in much of the dis*849tance exceeds 15 feet, deep. When sail-vessels are running down the Potomac river under a stiff breeze from off the Maryland shore they…
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