Legal Opinion
Colahan v. The Idlewild
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 5, 1889PublishedCited by 16 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
On the 19th of March, 1887, as the libelant’s schooner A. W. Thompson was beating to the westward in Long Island sound, against the wind from W. N. W., she was run into by the steam-boat Idlewild, also going west, about a mile this side of Throgg’s Neck, off Whitestone docks, and about a half a mile from shore. The vessels met nearly at right angles. The master, who was at the wheel, was killed by the falling spars, and his body picked up from the water. The above *116suits are brought by his administratrix to recover in one suit, under the statute of this state, for the loss of life, and in the…
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