Seabrook v. Raft of Railroad Cross-Ties
District Court, D. South Carolina
In Admiralty. Libel for collision.
1Opinion of the CourtSimonton, J.
The libelant is the owner of a steam-dredge used in mining phosphate rock from the bed of navigable streams. While at anchor in the stream of Stono river, a navigable salt-water river, on 13th September last, his dredge was run into by a raft floating down the stream with the tide, and injured. He brings this libel in rem. An exception is taken to the jurisdiction. Will a libel in rem lie against a raft for collision on navigable waters? The precise question has not been decided in any case reported. Chief Justice Taney, in Tome v. Four Cribs of Lumber, Taney, 533, was of the opinion that…
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