Sargent v. Sargent
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from tbe District Court of the United States for the District of Maine. This was a libel by Wyer G. Sargent and others, owners of the two-masted schooner Governor, and Wyer G. Sargent & Sons, as owners of her cargo, against the three-masted schooner Charles H. Trickey (Horace M. Sargent, claimant), to recover damages for a collision. The district court dismissed the libel, with costs, and the libelants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, District Judge.
This was a libel for a collision between the two-masted schooner Governor and the three-masted schooner Charles H. Trickey, which occurred off the coast of Cape Cod, in the vicinity of Nausei Light, on the evening of the 25th of August, 1898, and resalíed in the sinking of the Governor and the total loss of the vessel and her cargo. The Governor was sailing closehauled, with the wind on her starboard side. Her course was S. by W. The Charles H. Trickey was running free, with the wind on her port side, and she was steering N. by W. In these positions of the two sailing…
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