Bulloch v. The Lamar
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Georgia
[Appeal from the -district court of the United States for the district of Georgia. [In admiralty. Libel by William W. Bul-loch against the steamer Lamar to recover damages for the loss of two negro slaves by collision. The bill was dismissed in the district court (case not reported), and libellant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
WAYNE, Circuit Justice.
The libellant seeks to recover compensation for two ne-groes, who were his property, and who were drowned, the canoe in which they were, having been run under by the steamer Lamar, in tide water, in the Savannah river. He alleges, that the negroes were going in a staunch, well built, and safe boat from the city of Savannah to his plantation. That, as they were on the way up the river, it being about eight o’clock and bright moon light, the steamboat Lamar, with two towboats attached to her, and with a strong current, ran with great violence and force against the canoe,…
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