The Louisiana
District Court, S.D. New York
[This case had been previously heard upon motion of claimants for commission to examine certain witnesses in. Liverpool. The motion, upon consent of libellants, was allowed, subject to right of cross-examination. Case No. 8,536.]
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
This is a libel for a collision, filed by Ferdinand L. Hansen and others, owners of the Prussian bark Auguste Louise, against the British steamship Louisiana. At the time of the collision the steamer was on a voyage from Queenstown, in Ireland, to New York, and the bark was bound from Queenstown to Tralee, on the west coast of Ireland. The collision occurred between nine and ten o’clock p. m., on the 5th of April, 1807, in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Ireland, at a point about eight miles from Mizzen-head, a promontory on the southwest coast of Ireland. The…
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