The Elizabeth Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. On the 12th of August, 1873, James R. Slauson and William R. Pugh filed a libel in admiralty, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, against the bark Elizabeth Jones, to recover damages for the total loss of the schooner Willis, owned by them, and of the freight money on her cargo, through a collision which occurred between the two vessels…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. On the 12th of August, 1873, James R. Slauson and William R. Pugh filed a libel in admiralty, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, against the bark Elizabeth Jones, to recover damages for the total loss of the schooner Willis, owned by them, and of the freight money on her cargo, through a collision which occurred between the two vessels shortly before two o’clock a. m. on the 11th of November, 1872, on Lake Erie. The Willis was on a voyage from Chicago to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
He recited the facts' as above stated, and continued:. There is a bill of • exceptions, containing exceptions by the .claimants of the Jones to the first, third and fourth conclusions, of law. Our review of the decree below is limited by statute to a determination of the questions of law which arise on the record, under the facts stated by the Circuit Court. The opinion of that court, although, as required by a rule of this court, annexed to and transmitted with the record, is no part of it.
When this collision occurred, the regulations in force for preventing collisions on the water were…
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