The Sagamore
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Jas. M. Morton, Jr., Judge. Libel by Sylvanus Smith & Co., Incorporated, against the steamship Sagamore, claimed by Alexander Fenton, together with libels by Sarah J. Doggett, as administratrix of the estates of John A. Doggett and another, against the White Diamond Steamship Company, Limited, and by Guy Sullivan, administrator, against the same defendant.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Jas. M. Morton, Jr., Judge. Libel by Sylvanus Smith & Co., Incorporated, against the steamship Sagamore, claimed by Alexander Fenton, together with libels by Sarah J. Doggett, as administratrix of the estates of John A. Doggett and another, against the White Diamond Steamship Company, Limited, and by Guy Sullivan, administrator, against the same defendant. From decrees against the several libelants, they appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
These are appeals from the decision of the District Court that the British steamer Sagamore was not in fault for a collision, in a dense fog, with the fishing schooner Olympia, about 2:3Q a. in., June 17, 1913, off the coast of Nova Scotia, between 40 and SO miles south of Sable Island and in the vicinity of the Grand Banks.
The schooner was on the starboard tack, on a course nearly at a right angle to that of the steamer, and was struck on her port side aft the mainmast, and so deeply cut that she sank in a few minutes. Of her crew of 14 the master and 5 men were…
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