City of Paris
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal in admiralty from the decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District. of New York; affirming a decree of the District Court on a libel in admiralty; the waters where the collision took place having been the very same as in the collision in the last case; those, namely, between Jersey City and the Battery at New York.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
stated the facts and delivered the opinion of the court.
The cause was one of collision. The vessels concerned were the schooner Percy Heilmar and the steamer City of Paris. The schooner was 78 feet in length; her tonnage, new measurement, was 107 tons; her carrying capacity was about 170 tons. The City of Paris was an iron screw steamer. She was 375 feet long, and 40 feet beam. Her register was 1669 tons, English measurement. Her engines were 600 horse power. The schooner was laden with coal, and was on a voyage from Philadelphia to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, by way of Long Island Sound..The…
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