The Merrill C. Hart
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in admiralty for collision by John N. Robins, owner of the yacht Seminole, against the schooner Merrill C. Hart, Richard Dunn and others, claimants, and the steam tug A. C. Cheney, the Cornell Steamboat Company, claimant, and cross-libels by claimants of the Hart and Cheney against the Seminole. Decree against all three vessels, and cross-libelants appeal.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in admiralty for collision by John N. Robins, owner of the yacht Seminole, against the schooner Merrill C. Hart, Richard Dunn and others, claimants, and the steam tug A. C. Cheney, the Cornell Steamboat Company, claimant, and cross-libels by claimants of the Hart and Cheney against the Seminole. Decree against all three vessels, and cross-libelants appeal. The controversies arose from a collision of the steam yacht Seminole with the schooner Merrill C. Hart and the tug A." C. Cheney, which had…
1Opinion of the CourtEacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The opinion of the District Judge fully sets forth the details of the pleadings and the evidence. They need not be repeated, here. The Cheney took the Hart in tow from anchorage at a place within anchorage limits somewhat above a point opposite Fourteenth street, then went down river a little, turning to the eastward below a'stalceboat, the North. She had the schooner on her starboard side, and continued on a turning course till they again reached the anchorage grounds at a point not far from another stakeboat, the Eureka, where it was intended to make…
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