Bunge v. The Steamship Utopia

These suits are brought by the owners of the German bark Helios, and the owners of her cargo, to recover the value of the vessel, and her cargo of petroleum and staves, which were totally lost by collision with the steamship Utopia, on the sixth day of September, 1878.

The place of the collision is stated in the libels to have been in latitude 43 deg. 34 min. north, longitude 50 deg. 18 min. west. The answers make the place a little further to the southward and eastward, but the difference is not material, and the place is admitted to have been on the great bank of Newfoundland, near its…