Pettitt v. The Kallisto
District Court, E.D. Virginia
[These were libels in the matter of the Kal-listo and by C. A. Pettitt and others against the Kallisto for damages sustained in a collision.] The Norwegian bark Kallisto, 460 tons, and the American schooner Hattie L. Fuller, 260 tons, collided at 3 a. m. on the morning of April 13th, 1877, at sea, about eighteen miles northeastwardly off Body Island, the light there being in sight. The Fuller was bound for Washington, D. C., with a load of hard pine lumber.
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[These were libels in the matter of the Kal-listo and by C. A. Pettitt and others against the Kallisto for damages sustained in a collision.] The Norwegian bark Kallisto, 460 tons, and the American schooner Hattie L. Fuller, 260 tons, collided at 3 a. m. on the morning of April 13th, 1877, at sea, about eighteen miles northeastwardly off Body Island, the light there being in sight. The Fuller was bound for Washington, D. C., with a load of hard pine lumber. The bark was in ballast bound for Bull River, South Carolina. The schooner was struck in the port below, a little forward of the cathead,…
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, District Judge.
This is the rare case of a collision between saii-vcssels far out in tlie ocean. The manner in which it liap: pened can be known to but one or two of the very few persons who were present. To all others it is difficult of any theoretical explanation and incapable of any certain explanation. The evidence in this ease, as in most other cases of maritime collision, reminds one of the incident which made Sir ■Walter Baleigh despair of the possibility of writing accurate history. Evidence, voluminous in the extreme, has been taken in this case, and a vast deal of expert…
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