The Nacoochee
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a libel in admiralty, filed in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by Edward S. Moseley and others, as owners of - the fishing schooner Lizzie Thompson, against the steamer Nacoochee, to recover damages for -the loss of the schooner and her outfit" and the property on board of her, in consequence of her being sunk by a collision with…
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a libel in admiralty, filed in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by Edward S. Moseley and others, as owners of - the fishing schooner Lizzie Thompson, against the steamer Nacoochee, to recover damages for -the loss of the schooner and her outfit" and the property on board of her, in consequence of her being sunk by a collision with the steamer, in March, 1883, in the Atlantic Ocean, off Cape May in the- State of New Jersey. The libel alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
It is contended for the steamer that she was not guilty of any neglect in going at the rate of speed found. Her full rate of speed was between thirteen and fourteen knots an hour. When she first overhauled the schooner her speed was between six and seven knots an hour, and she kept up the latter speed until she reversed her engines on suddenly sighting the schooner in the fog, about five hundred feet away. At the time this collision took place the rules of navigation found in section 1233 of the Be vised Statutes were in force. By Buie 15, whenever there was a fog or thick weather, whether by…
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