Vega v. The City of Alexandria
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Appeal from the district court for the Southern district of New York. Reported 23 Fed. Rep. 826. Libel in rem by a shipper, for damage to cargo while being transported in lighter to the vessel’s anchorage. The issue involved two questions: (1) Whether the accident was occasioned by the negligence of the lighter, or by perils of the sea; (2) whether the steamship was responsible for the negligence of the lighter.
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
The libelant’s tobacco was injured while being carried from the Caballería wharf, Havana, to the steam-ship, on a *203lighter belonging to Mendez & Co. The questions in controversy are — First, whether the accident was occasioned by the negligence of the lighter, or by a peril of the sea; and, secondly, whether the steamship is responsible for the negligence of the lighter.
As to the first question, the case for the libelants is so plain as to be almost free from doubt. Three hundred and ninety-nine bales of tobacco, very dry and slippery, were taken on the lighter, to be carried about a half…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bulkley v. Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1860
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