Place and Others v. Norwich & New York Transp. Co
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The case was stated by the court as follows: This case arose out of a collision which occurred on Long Island Sound, opposite Huntington, on the 18th of April, 1866, between the Steamboat City of Norwich, belonging to the Norwich and New York Transportation Company, the appellees, and the schooner General S. Yan Yliet, belonging to William A. Wright and others, appellants, by which the…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The case was stated by the court as follows: This case arose out of a collision which occurred on Long Island Sound, opposite Huntington, on the 18th of April, 1866, between the Steamboat City of Norwich, belonging to the Norwich and New York Transportation Company, the appellees, and the schooner General S. Yan Yliet, belonging to William A. Wright and others, appellants, by which the schooner and her cargo were sunk and lost, and the steamboat was set on fire and sunk, and her cargo lost. The owners of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Bradley,
after stating the casein the language reported above,.delivered the opinion of the court.
' The first ground of error which we shall notice is the alleged want of jurisdiction in the District Court to allow a reappraisement of the steamboat for the purpose of fixing her value as the limit of the owner’s liability, after her value had once been appraised at $70,000, and she had been delivered to the claimants upon their stipulation for that amount. This ground cannot be maintained, because the question had not then been decided, what particular time was to be taken for…
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