In Re Morrison
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. On the lYth^of October, 1892, two applications were made to the court on behalf of Henry Morrison; the first for leave to file a petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N©w York; the second for leave to file a petition for a writ of prohibition directed to the District Court of ■ Massachusetts.
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ORIGINAL. On the lYth^of October, 1892, two applications were made to the court on behalf of Henry Morrison; the first for leave to file a petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N©w York; the second for leave to file a petition for a writ of prohibition directed to the District Court of ■ Massachusetts. Leave being granted, these petitions were filed, argument was had, and the petitions were both denied. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
delivered the opinion of the court. •
On the 24th of July, 1892, between 8 and 9 o’clock a.m. a collision took place between the steam yacht Alva, at anchor on Nantucket Shoals, in Yineyard Sound, and owned by William K. Yanderbilt, of the city of New York, and the freight steamship H. F. Dimock, running regularly between Boston and the city, of New York, and beloriging to the Metropolitan Steamship Company, a Massachusetts corporation. The collision occurred during a thick fog, and, as a consequence of it, :the Alva sank.
On the 16th of August, 1892, the steamship .company filed a libel and…
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