American Manuf'g Co. v. The Maverick
District Court, E.D. New York
These were two libels for collision, brought, respectively, by the American Manufacturing Company and by John W. Hall and others,, against the steamship Maverick.
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
These actions are brought to recover damages sustained by the libelants in the total loss of the-schooner Ettie H. Lister and her cargo in a collision with the steamship Maverick, which occurred on the high seas, on the 1st day of October, 1894. The schooner left New York on that day, bound for Wilmington. She was sailing at' a speed of five knots an hour, under full sail, with a fair breeze. Her course for an hour or so before the collision had been S. W. \ W. The steamer was bound up the coast to New York, having in tow a barge upon a hawser 1,200 feet long. Her…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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