The James McCaudley
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Suits in admiralty for collision by the schooner Marie Palmer against the Blanche Hopkins and the tug James McCaulley, and by the Hopkins against the McCaulley and the Palmer. Decree against the McCaulley in each case, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
LANNING, Circuit Judge.
This case grows out of a collision of the two schooners Marie Palmer and Blanche Hopkins in Delaware Bay shortly after 3 o’clock on the morning of October 30, 1903. Both of the schooners were seriously damaged. The Palmer, towed by the tug James McCaulley, was passing down the bay and the Hopkins was coming up. There were two proceedings in the District Court, one on the libel of the master of the Palmer against the McCaulley and the Hopkins, and. the other on the libel .of the master of the Hopkins against the McCaulley, whose owner brought in, under the fifty-ninth…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- The Steamer WebbSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- The Ann CarolineSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
- The Marie PalmerDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1909
- The Marie PalmerDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1907
3Cited by1 opinion
- Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, Ltd. v. Societe Purfina MaritimeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1942