Newton v. Stebbins
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit.Court-of the United States for the Southern District of -New York. Like the preceding case, it arose from a collision which took place between a steamboat and a sailing vessel. ’ Thé circumstances under which the collision took place, as claimed to exist by the respective parties, áre thus set forth in the libel and answer.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit.Court-of the United States for the Southern District of -New York. Like the preceding case, it arose from a collision which took place between a steamboat and a sailing vessel. ’ Thé circumstances under which the collision took place, as claimed to exist by the respective parties, áre thus set forth in the libel and answer. The libel was filed in November, 1845. “ To the Honorable Samuel R. Betts, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. “ The libel and complaint of.John H. Stebbins, of Coeymaná; mariner, owner…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the Uijited States for the Southern District of New York.
The suit was commenced in the District Court in admiralty against the steamboat New. Jersey, to recover damages arising from a collision on the North River, in which the sloop Hamlet was run down arid sunk, in October, 1846.
The. libel charges that the Hamlet, a vessel laden with a cargo of flagging stones, and. of ninety tons burden, was proceeding down the river for the port of New York,,and had reached a place called Blue Point, on said river; that after passing that point the…
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