The Fannie
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. This was a case of collision, in Chesapeake *Bay, between, the schooner Ellen Forrester and the steamship Fannie. The owners of the schooner libelled the steamer in the District Court for Maryland. That court decreed in their favor. The Circuit Court on appeal did the same. The owners of the steamer now brought the case here.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. This was a case of collision, in Chesapeake *Bay, between, the schooner Ellen Forrester and the steamship Fannie. The owners of the schooner libelled the steamer in the District Court for Maryland. That court decreed in their favor. The Circuit Court on appeal did the same. The owners of the steamer now brought the case here. No question of law was involved; the case resting chiefly on a conflict of evidence, as to what had or had not existed or been done, on the respective vessels at the time of the accident.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
stated the admitted facts, the evidence on the disputed ones, and delivered the opinion of the court.
The substantial facts, as they are made to appear by the evidence, are these: On the morning of the 28th of April, 1868, the schooner, a vessel of sixty-nine tons burden, laden with one hundred tons of pig-iron, was proceeding down the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore, toward the capes, on her voyage to Providence, Rhode Island. The wind was fair, blowing from the northeast, and the course of the schooner was south by east one-half east. Her speed was about seven knots an hour. She was in good…
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