The Onoko
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Admiralty. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the ^Northern District of Illinois. This, is a libel in rem, filed by the administrator of the estates of tlie master, a seaman, and the cook of the schooner Mary D. Ayer, to recover damages for Their deaths by drowning resulting from a collision between the steamer Onoko and tlie schooner Mary D. Ayer, charged to have been caused by the faulty navigation of the steamer.
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In Admiralty. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the ^Northern District of Illinois. This, is a libel in rem, filed by the administrator of the estates of tlie master, a seaman, and the cook of the schooner Mary D. Ayer, to recover damages for Their deaths by drowning resulting from a collision between the steamer Onoko and tlie schooner Mary D. Ayer, charged to have been caused by the faulty navigation of the steamer. The collision occurred upon Lake Michigan within the boundaries of the state of Illinois. The schooner, after tlie collision, drifted down the lake,…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
Certain propositions, as stated by this court in Bigelow v. Anderson’s Adm’r, 34 U. S. App. 201, sub nom. Bigelow v. Nickerson, 17 C. C. A. 1, 70 Fed. 113, 30 L. R. A. 336, we understand to be settled by the ruling of the ultimate tribunal, namely: (1) That at the common law no civil action would lie for an injury resulting in death; (2) that, in the absence of proper legislation, no proceeding in the admiralty would lie for negligent injury causing death on the high seas or the navigable waters of the United States; (3) that, in the absence of legislation by the congress, if a state statute…
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- Laidlaw v. Oregon Ry. & Nav. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1897
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