Hall v. The Alene

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was filed by the owners of the three-masted schooner John W. Hall, against the steamship Alene to recover the damages for the loss of the schooner through a collision with the Alene at about 2 p. m. of May 5, 1895, at sea about 140 miles west of Cape Henry, The schooner sank a few minutes after the collision and became a total loss.

*269The steamer was an iron screw propeller about 320 feet long, bound from New York for the West Indies, and until a few moments before the collision was upon a course heading south. The schooner was bound for New York, and was…