Middleton v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This is an appeal from a decree of the district court, Southern district of New York, awarding $12,500 as damages sustained by the widow and next of kin of Robert H. Middleton, deceased. On May 14, 1898, the deceased, together with seven others, was engaged in testing cables connecting the mines in the main ship channel, harbor of New York, during the late war with Spain.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This is an appeal from a decree of the district court, Southern district of New York, awarding $12,500 as damages sustained by the widow and next of kin of Robert H. Middleton, deceased. On May 14, 1898, the deceased, together with seven others, was engaged in testing cables connecting the mines in the main ship channel, harbor of New York, during the late war with Spain. Through the mine field in this main ship channel there had been reserved a passageway for friendly vessels, 300 feet in width, known…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The location of the accident was a little southwest of red buoy No. 6, main channel; and the first point raised by appellant is that the statute of the state of New Jersey giving to the administrator a right of action for damages sustained by the widow and next of kin in the case of death negligently caused was of no authority at the place where such accident happened. It appears that such point was not presented to, nor argued before, the district court. Certainly there is no reference to it in the opinion of the district judge. Nevertheless it may fairly he raised…
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