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The Ann Caroline

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 18, 1865PublishedCited by 15 opinions

This was an appeal in admiralty from tbe decree of tbe Circuit Court for tbe Southern District of New York, in a ease of collision,at sea, — the case being thus: Tbe owner of tbe schooner J. C. Wells filed a libel in admiralty in the Southern District of New York against tbe schooner Ann Caroline, to recover damages for a collision occurring on the eastern shore of the Delaware Bay.

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This was an appeal in admiralty from tbe decree of tbe Circuit Court for tbe Southern District of New York, in a ease of collision,at sea, — the case being thus: Tbe owner of tbe schooner J. C. Wells filed a libel in admiralty in the Southern District of New York against tbe schooner Ann Caroline, to recover damages for a collision occurring on the eastern shore of the Delaware Bay. The two vessels were beating up the bay of a fine morning in February,-1854, in company with several other vessels, and were just now between “ Crow Shoal” and the Jersey shore, a passage in the bay where the…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford

This is an appeal in admiralty from the decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, in a cause of collision, civil and maritime.

Damages are claimed in this case by the libellant on account of a collision which occurred on the 11th day of February, 1854, in Delaware Bay, between the schooner John C. Wells, bound on a voyage from New York to Philadelphia, and the schooner Ann Caroline, bound on a voyage from NevT York to Smyrna, in the State of Delaware, whereby the former was run down and .sunk in the bay, and became a total loss. Libel was filed by…

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