Legal Opinion

Clarke v. The Dodge Healy

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania

Decided April 15, 1827PublishedCited by 7 opinions

[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania.] In admiralty.

1Opinion of the Court

WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.

This case comes by appeal from the district court, where a pro forma decree, dismissing the libel, was given. The libel states that on the 24th of January last, the libellants, whilst in their oyster boats in the mouth of Back creek, in Delaware bay, saw the brig Dodge Healy drifting down the bay in a solid cake of ice, of about four acres in extent, from Cohanzey cove, about ten miles higher up the bay. In about three hours after they first observed her, she had drifted down opposite Back creek, and was proceeding in the direction of the Cross Ledge shoals, when…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. In re Davidson S. S. Co.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1904
  2. Talbert v. ElphickeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1896
  3. The HyderabadDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1882
  4. The C. P. MinchDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1894
  5. The Job H. JacksonDistrict Court, E.D. North Carolina · 1908

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