Brownell v. The General
District Court, D. Rhode Island
This was a libel by Edward. I. Brownell, owner of the sloop yacht Gypsy, against the steamer General, to recover damages resulting from a collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BBJOWN, District Judge.
This libel is for a collision between the small sloop yacht Gypsy and the steamer General, of the Newport & Wickford Line, shortly after 8 o’clock on the evening of August 5, 1S96, in Narragansett Bay, at a point in the northern entrance to Newport Harbor, three or four hundred feet westerly of Coaster’s Harbor Island. The yacht was approaching the harbor through the northern entrance on a course estimated as S. E. by S., with the wind on her port side a little abaft the beam. The steamer’s course was N. by W., until, at a point about 400 feet westerly of Poor House…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The" Sunnyside"Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Carleton v. The Charles L. JeffreyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1893
- Armstrong v. Barrow Steamship Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1896
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