The Baltimore
Supreme Court of the United States
The schooner Woolston, with a cargo of coal, and the steamer Baltimore, collided iu the Potomac, on the 16th of December, 1863, and the schooner and her cargo sank. ■ The owners of the schooner accordingly libelled the steamer in the Admiralty Court of the District.
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The schooner Woolston, with a cargo of coal, and the steamer Baltimore, collided iu the Potomac, on the 16th of December, 1863, and the schooner and her cargo sank. ■ The owners of the schooner accordingly libelled the steamer in the Admiralty Court of the District. The libel averred that the collision had been caused wholly by the steamer’s fault, and that the schooner had sunk in such deep water as to make both her and her cargo a total loss, since the cost of raising either, or both, would be greater than its- or their value. These allegations, both as 'to the fault and the total loss, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, since the passage of the act of the 3d of March, 1803, cannot be brought here for re-examination in any other mode than by appeal; and the provision is, “that upon such appeal, a transcript of the libel, answer, depositions, and all other proceedings, of what kind soever in the cause, shall be transmitted to” this court. Prior to that time, the judgments and decrees of the Circuit Courts in civil actions and suits in equity, whether brought there by original- process, or transferred there from the courts of the several States, or from the District…
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