Crockett v. the Steamboat Isaac Newton
Supreme Court of the United States
These two cases were appeals from tire circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York.. In the first case, the libellants were owners of the schooner Hero, of Maine, and in the second case, Lord was the owher of a cargo of corn and flour laden on board of The Hero, bound from New York to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The circumstances of the collision are set forth in the opinion of the court.
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These two cases were appeals from tire circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York.. In the first case, the libellants were owners of the schooner Hero, of Maine, and in the second case, Lord was the owher of a cargo of corn and flour laden on board of The Hero, bound from New York to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The circumstances of the collision are set forth in the opinion of the court. The district court dismissed the libels with costs, which decree was affirmed in the circuit court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Curtis
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, in a cause of collision, prosecuted by the owners of the schooner Hero, against the steamer. Isaac Newton.
On the sixteenth of July, 1850, the schooner Hero, of the burden of 100 tons, which had been lying at pier No. 15 on the North River, in the city of New York, hauled out of the dock, soon after sunrise got up her mainsail and both jibs, and pushed off into the stream. The tide was about half ebb, setting to the southward and eastward, and the wind was about southeast, but so…
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