Legal Opinion
Morrison v. Metropolitan S. S. Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 7, 1892PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Admiralty. Motion to set aside process and to dismiss libel. Granted.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, District Judge.
The libelant was master of the yacht Alva, the property of the respondent Vanderbilt, at the time of the collision between her and the steamship H. F. Dimock in Vineyard sound, ón the morning of July 24, 1892. The yacht was so damaged by the collision that she sank and became a wreck. The libel alleges that before collision she was of the value of $800,000; that her wreck was of very small value, realizing on the sale at public auction only $3,500; that the collision was by the fault of the steamer; that the libelant thereby suffered the loss of his personal property on…
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