Nelson v. Leland
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of. Louisiana, sitting in admiralty. It was a case of collision between the steamboat Brigadier General R. H. Stokes and a flat-boat called “ Clear the Track,” which occurred upon the Yazoo river, 200 miles above its mouth where it empties into the Mississippi, twelve miles above Vicksburg, and wholly within the State of Mississippi. Its waters are fresh, and there are no tides in it.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of. Louisiana, sitting in admiralty. It was a case of collision between the steamboat Brigadier General R. H. Stokes and a flat-boat called “ Clear the Track,” which occurred upon the Yazoo river, 200 miles above its mouth where it empties into the Mississippi, twelve miles above Vicksburg, and wholly within the State of Mississippi. Its waters are fresh, and there are no tides in it. The libel was filed by Nelson & Co., the consignees of the flat-boat, and of 366 bales of cotton shipped on board of it.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
This is an appeal in admiralty from the Circuit Court of the United States of the eastern district of Louisiana.
The libellants allege that they were the consignees of a certain flat-boat called “ Clear the Track,” and of three hundred and sixty-six bales of cotton, which were shipped to them by various persons by said flat-boat; that said boat left Sardinia. on Yakana river, in the State of Mississippi, on the 19th February, 1858, bound for Rbw Orleans; that on the 2d March ensuing, on said voyage, descending the Yazoo river, about eight miles below the head of .Honey Island, and within the…
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