Legal Opinion
The Isaac Bell
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 22, 1881PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, D. J.
This libel was filed by the owner of the schooner George 8. Repplier, to recover damages caused by the steamer Isaac Bell running into her as she lay at anchor in the James river, about 2 o’clock in the morning of August 18, 1879. The place of the collision was several miles above Newport News, nearly abreast of the White Shoal light. The river at this point is from three to four miles wide, running in a south-easterly course. The' White Shoal is a narrow bank, about a mile in length, running in the same course with the river, and about midway from shore to shore. The White Shoal…
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