Legal Opinion

North American Steamship Co. v. Lorillard

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York

Decided February 25, 1873PublishedCited by 1 opinion

[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Eastern district of New York. [These were libels by the North American Steamship Company against Jacob Lorillard, and by Edward Murphy against the Santiago de Cuba and Jacob Lorillard, to recover damages for collision.]

1Opinion of the Court

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

The appeal, In these cases, is by the owners and the mort- • gagee of the steamship Santiago de Cuba, which was held, in the district court [Case No. 12.332], to be the guilty cause of a collision with the steamer Brunette, on the night of the 1st of February, 1870, at about ten o’clock. The Brunette and her cargo were totally lost. The owners of the Brunette li-belled the Santiago de Cuba, the owners of the latter vessel sued the owner of the Brunette, and the owner of the cargo of the Brunette sued, in one suit, the Santiago de Cuba and the owmer of the Brunette.

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2Cited by1 opinion

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