The "Atlas."
Supreme Court of the United States
Cjross-appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. This is a libel against the steamboat “Atlas,” by the Phoenix Insurance Company* for damages resulting from a collision between the “ Atlas' ” and the steam-tug “ Kate,” whereby a canal-boat, in tow of the latter, was sunk, and her cargo, of which the company was.the insurer, was lost and destroyed.
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Cjross-appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. This is a libel against the steamboat “Atlas,” by the Phoenix Insurance Company* for damages resulting from a collision between the “ Atlas' ” and the steam-tug “ Kate,” whereby a canal-boat, in tow of the latter, was sunk, and her cargo, of which the company was.the insurer, was lost and destroyed. The District Court found that the collision was caused by the mutual fault of the “ Atlas ” and “ Kate,” and decreed that the libellant recover against the “ Atlas ” one-half of the damages sustained.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Owners of ships and vessels are not liable, under existing laws, for any loss, damage, or injury by collision, if occasioned without their privity or knowledge, beyond the amount of their interest in such ship or vessel and her freight pending at the time the collision occurred.
Subject to that provision in the act of Congress, the damages which the owner of the injured vessel is entitled to recover are estimated in the same manner as in suits for injuries to other personal property, and the claim for compensation may, in certain cases, extend to the loss of freight, necessary expenses in…
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- The BaltimoreSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Steamboat Co. v. ChaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- The Schooner Catharine v. DickinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1855
- Sturgis v. BoyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1860
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