Dinniny v. The Sam Sloan
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel in rem by Berral C. Dinniny, Jr., against the steamboat Sam Sloan, to recover for damages sustained by collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
At about noon on the 1st of July, 1894, as the libelant’s steam, yacht Aztec, about 80 feet long by 14 feet beam, was going eastward through Hell Gate, and rounding Hallett’s Point, she was struck on her starboard quarter, near the stern, by the overtaking side-wheel passenger steamer Sam Sloan, bound for Glen Island. The yacht’s stem was carried away, and she ran a few moments afterwards upon the rocks near the lighthouse, and became, as is claimed, a total loss, to recover for which the above libel was filed.
The yacht had come up on the easterly side of Blackwell’s…
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