Haney v. Baltimore Steam Packet Company
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland, sitting in admiralty. It was a ease of collision occurring in the Chesapeake bay, between the steamer Louisiana and the schooner William K. Perrin, by which the schooner was sunk. The libel was in rem, filed by the appellants against the steamer, and George W. Russell, master thereof. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company intervened and answered as the owner of the steamer.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland, sitting in admiralty. It was a ease of collision occurring in the Chesapeake bay, between the steamer Louisiana and the schooner William K. Perrin, by which the schooner was sunk. The libel was in rem, filed by the appellants against the steamer, and George W. Russell, master thereof. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company intervened and answered as the owner of the steamer. The evidence in the case is so fully commented upon in thé opinion of the court and in the disseuting opinion of Mr. Chief Justice…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The appellants, owners of a schooner called the William K.. Perrin, charge in their libel that between nine and ten o’clock of the evening of 20th of Eebruary, 1858, ás the schooner, laden with oysters, was on her way down the Chesapeake bay, she was run into and sunk by the steamboat Louisiana; that it was a bright moonlight night, and the schooner, though of only forty-three tons burden and deeply laden,, could be and was seen at the distance of a mile.
The answer admits the collision and the result of it. It ad - mits, also, the schooner was seen at a distance of two or three milés; that…
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