Legal Opinion
The Annie Williams
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided June 28, 1884PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Libel in rem.
1Opinion of the CourtNixon, J.
The libel is filed in this caseto recover damages caused by a collision. It alleges that on the fifteenth of November, 1882, the libelants’ boat Mary, loaded with a cargo of coal, was taken in tow by the steam-tug Robert Burnett at Elizabethport, New Jersey, to be towed with three other boats to the city of New York; that the tow was made up with two boats on each side of the said tug, fastened thereto, the libelants’ boat being on the outside of the port side of the tug; that they left Elizabethport between 7 and 8 o’clock in the morning and proceeded on said trip; that after they left…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- The AlabamaDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1902