Checkley v. Providence & Stonington Steamship Co.

This is a motion by the defendant, as owners of the steamship FTarragansett, sunk by a collision with another steamship also belonging to the defendant, to stay plaintiff’s proceedings in the action until the 'final judgment in the proceedings now pending in the district court of the United State for the southern district of FTew York for a limitation and determination of 'defendant’s liability by reason of the losses arising out of the collision.. This proceeding has been .instituted under the act of congress, passed March 3, 1851. By the common as well as the'civil law the liability of a…