The Gate City
District Court, E.D. New York
Tbis was a libel in rem by John W. Hall against the steamship Gate City to recover damages caused by a collision between her and libel-ant’s schooner, Joel Cook. The New England & Savannah Steamship Company filed a libel in personam against libelant, to recover for damages suffered by the Gate City.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
On the 3d of September, 1897, the steamship Gate City, one of a regular line of steamers plying between Savannah, Ga., and New York, and carrying freight and passengers, was on her north-bound trip from Savannah, and at 2 o’clock a. m. was about off Egg Harbor Light, on the coast of New Jersey. The schooner Joel Cook had sailed from New York on the 2d of September, at about 1 o’clock p. m., bound for Lewes, Del., and at 2 o’clock in the morning of September 3d was headed S. W. by S. I S., with the wind N. W. About 5 or 10 minutes past 2 o’clock in the morning, the 1 wo…
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