The Chattahoochee
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. This was a libel for a collision whi,ch took place in the early-morning of July 20, i.894, southeast of Nantucket Shoals, between the Canadian schooner Golden Rule and the American'steamship Chattahoochee, resulting in the total loss of the schooner and her cargo.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. This was a libel for a collision whi,ch took place in the early-morning of July 20, i.894, southeast of Nantucket Shoals, between the Canadian schooner Golden Rule and the American'steamship Chattahoochee, resulting in the total loss of the schooner and her cargo. The Golden Rule was a topsail schooner hailing from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, of about 200 tons burden, and rigged with twelve sails, including one double square sail on the foremast. Her length over .all was 110 feet. She was bound on a voyage from Porto Rico to Boston…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
'There can be no doubt whatever of the liability of the steamer, and as she did not appeal, of course she is estopped to deny such liability in this court.
1. Whether the Golden Eule was also liable for excessive speed is a question, of more difficulty. She was a topsail schooner, rigged .With twelve sails, all of which she was carrying, except one half her double square sail on the foremast, which had been taken in. She was sailing on her port tack with the wind well abaft the beam, through a fog which did not admit of the hull of a vessel being seen more than a few hundred feet distant. It:…
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