The Middlesex
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Suit by the Russell Company against the steamer Middlesex. Intervening petition of Edmund Winfield and Edward Lawrence, and libels by Mary E. Thomas, administratrix of the estate of John Thomas, by Erederick Poster, administrator of the estate of John W. Cook, and by James H. Dooley, administrator of the estate of Arthur Carberry, against the Coastwise Transportation Company.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
These cases grow out of a collision between the steamer Middlesex, owned by the Coastwise Transportation Company, and the five-masted schooner George P. Hudson, which occurred on 11th July, 1914, at about 10:20 p. m., on the high seas, at a point about six miles eastward of Pollock Rip Slue lightship. There was a dense fog at the time. The Hudson sank almost immediately; her captain and two of her crew were drowned. The proceedings now before the court are to recover damages for their deaths, and damages for personal injuries received in the collision by two surviving…
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