Legal Opinion
The Cheruskia
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 8, 1899PublishedCited by 1 opinion
This was a libel by Edward- E. Hatchings and others against the steamship Cheruslia to recover damages for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libel was filed to recover the damages arising from a collision between the British brigantine R. ,L. T. .going southerly and the German steamship Oheruskia going westerly, which look place to (lie southward of Nantucket Shoals lightship in a low hut not very dense fog on (.he evening of July 4, i898, at about 9:15 p. m. The brigantine was struck on her port quarter a little aft of the main rigging by the stem of the steamer v'ithin two or three points of a right angle. A. large hole was-mocked in her side and she speedily careened on her beam ends,, turning to…
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