The Narragansett
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New Tort.] The owners of the sloop Corinthian and the owners of her cargo filed a joint libel in rem, in the district court, against the steamboat Narragansett, to recover damages for a collision. The case was this. On the 3d of January, 1845, the sloop sailed from New-Bedford, Mass., for New-York, with a cargo of sperm and whale oil, sperm candles, whalebone, soap, and spermaceti.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New Tort.] The owners of the sloop Corinthian and the owners of her cargo filed a joint libel in rem, in the district court, against the steamboat Narragansett, to recover damages for a collision. The case was this. On the 3d of January, 1845, the sloop sailed from New-Bedford, Mass., for New-York, with a cargo of sperm and whale oil, sperm candles, whalebone, soap, and spermaceti. She was heavily laden, and had a heavy deck load. About 8 o’clock p. m. on the 8th, while in Long Island Sound, about opposite Black…
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
I have examined the several questions presented in this cause, arising out of the damages decreed by the court below, and see no sufficient, ground for disturbing the. allowances made. Some of *1164the items appear large, but the principles upon which they have been allowed, seem to be sustained by authority. 1 cannot interfere with the amount unless it is very strikingly out of proportion to the service or damage.
The additional damage arising out of the upsetting of the Corinthian in the attempt made by the Eureka to tow her into harbor, is perhaps a close question. But…
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