Hall v. Alene

SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the decree of the district court for the Eastern district of New York, which dismissed a libel to recover the damages to the libelants occasioned by a collision at sea. The facts in the case up to the time just before the collision are clearly stated by Judge Brown as follows:

“The above libel was filed by the owners of the three-masted schooner John W. Hall against the steamship Aleñe to recover the damages for the loss of the schooner through a collision with the Aleñe at about 2 p. m. of May 5, 1895, at sea, about 140 miles west of Cape Henry.…