The Mexico
District Court, S.D. New York
Tl)is was a petition for limitation of liability filed by the Com-pañía Transatlántica, owner of the Mexico, for damages amounting to $> 1,58,226.31, caused by the total loss of the steamship Nansemond and her cargo, in a collision with the Mexico, off the coast of Venezuela, and near the Island of Oruba, on December 21, 1895. The value of the Mexico and of her pending freight was fixed in the limitation proceeding at $00,754.88.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above petition was filed to limit the liability of the petitioning company, owner of the steamship Mexico, for damages occasioned by a collision between her and the steamer Nansemond at about half past 2 a. m. of December 21, 1895, to the southward of Oruba Light, near the Gulf of Venezuela, through which the Nansemond and her cargo became a total loss, and her master and others of her crew were drowned.
The Mexico was an iron vessel of 1,359 tons register and 331 feet long, bound from Puerto Caballo to Savanilla, and until shortly before the collision was on a course…
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