The Carroll
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a case of collision between the schooner Loon and the steamer Carroll, which occurred on the waters of Chesapeake Bay.
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This was a case of collision between the schooner Loon and the steamer Carroll, which occurred on the waters of Chesapeake Bay. The collision happened about two o’clock at night; the night was bright, and the weight of the testimony was,, that each vessel was provided with the necessary lookouts and lights.' The schooner was in her proper course down the bay to James River, in Virginia, while the steamer was on her way from New York to the port of-Baltimore, which the schooner had left the previous afternoon; and it was certain that the lookout of the steamer saw the schooner at least fifteen…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
The only difficulty in cases of the kind, brought by this appeal before the court, arises out of the almost necessarily conflicting character of the evidence; but if the court is able to reconcile it, or if this cannot be done, can see, notwithstanding this conflict, how the matter really occurred, then a conclusion is easily reached; for the rules of navigation which are applicable, have not only been settled by repeated adjudication, but are now embodied in the statute law of the United States. *
If the two vessels in this case were approaching each other in opposite directions, so as to…
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