The Alabama
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel in rem to recover damages for collision. This is a libel by the owner of the C. C. Mcllvaine to recover damages sustained in a collision with the Alabama on the evening of the 16th of January, 1900, in the harbor of Norfolk, Va.
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In Admiralty. Libel in rem to recover damages for collision. This is a libel by the owner of the C. C. Mcllvaine to recover damages sustained in a collision with the Alabama on the evening of the 16th of January, 1900, in the harbor of Norfolk, Va. On the day in question the Mcllvaine, along with three other barges, — the Emma and Bessie, the Schuylkill, and the J. B. Blades, — in the order named, were in tow of the Curtin, an ocean-going tug, en route from the port of Philadelphia to the port of Norfolk; and about 7:40 p. m., at a point opposite Nottingham & Wrenn’s Pier, on the eastern side…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddill, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). A great mass of evidence was taken, the witnesses being examined in open court, and in many important particulars the contest is sharply drawn, and the conflict between them apparently irreconcilable. Indeed, the condition in this respect frequently arising in collision cases exists in an unusual degree; yet in many particulars it can be accounted for by the peculiar character of the accident, the fact that it occurred in a narrow channel, on a dark night, — all of them matters as to which persons most frequently differ. The witnesses, in the main, from…
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