Metropolitan S. S. Co. v. Vanderbilt
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a petition by the Metropolitan Steamship Company for limitation of liability for collision between their steamship H. F. Dimock and the yacht Alva, at the same time denying liability; and a libel by William K. Vanderbilt, as owner of the yacht Alva, against the Metropolitan Steamship Company, for damages arising from the same collision.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a petition by the Metropolitan Steamship Company for limitation of liability for collision between their steamship H. F. Dimock and the yacht Alva, at the same time denying liability; and a libel by William K. Vanderbilt, as owner of the yacht Alva, against the Metropolitan Steamship Company, for damages arising from the same collision. A decree was rendered limiting liability to the value of the steamship H. F. Dimock and her freight, holding such steamship liable for the collision, and awarding…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The general facts involved in these appeals were stated by the learned judge of the district court as follows:
“This collision occurred in Pollock Ilip Slue, on Nantucket Shoals, between 8 and 9 o’clock in 1he morning of July 24, 1892, in a fog of great density. The Alva was a large steam pleasure yacht of steel or iron, and at the time was going from Bar Harbor to New York, with the owner and his guests on board. The Alva entered the Slue, and when about half way through the Slue ran Into a fog hank of great density, and the master of the yacht, feeling that it was…
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