The Hermann
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New York.] This was a libel in rem, filed in the district court, by Peter Grant and others, owners of the bark Reindeer, against the steamship Hermann, for a collision between the two vessels. The district court decreed for the libellants, and the claimants appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The collision in this case occurred on the night of the 24th of August, 1854, in the chops of St George’s Channel. The bark was on her way from London to Boston; the steamship from New York to Southampton. The night was not very dark. I take the facts as stated by the chief officer of the Hermann, who was on deck at the time, and had the general charge of the vessel, and by the third mate, whose watch it was on deck, and who witnessed the collision. Their statements concur, and are clear and candid. The chief mate says, that he was walking on the port side of the…
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