Legal Opinion
The Hope
District Court, D. Maine
Decided September 27, 1880PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Fox, D. J.
This collision took place about half past nine on the evening of the fourteenth of July last, about three miles south-east of Thatcher’s island.’ The Freddie L. Porter is a three-masted schooner of 349 tons, and was light, bound from Boston into the Kennebec river for a cargo of ice. The Hope is a flat-bottomed, center-board sloop, 42 tons, was loaded with stone, and bound from Cape Cod to Boston. Upon some matters there is more than the usual conflict of testimony between the crews of the respective vessels, and the court has found great difficulty in arriving at a satisfactory…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- The Great RepublicSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- The EmpireDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1866
3Cited by5 opinions
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- Thurlow v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1924
- Thames Towboat Co. v. Central R. of New JerseyDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 1894