The "Illinois."
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is a case of collision in the Delaware Bay, and the facts found are substantially as follows: The “Illinois” was a large steamship, three hundred and sixty feet in length, and of three thousand tons register. She was going up the bay at a speed of ten knots an hour. She had just rounded Dan Baker’s shoal on a port wheel, and had got straightened on her course in about mid-channel. The schooner “ Ellen Baker ” was ahead of her, a little on the port bow, and bound for New Castle, Del. The wind was from the northeastward, and the schooner was by the wind, heading about north-by-west, or…
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