Legal Opinion

The Sydney

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 30, 1891No. 224PublishedCited by 11 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. In admiralty. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatciiford

This is. a libel in admiralty, in rem, filed on the 23d of July, 1883, in the District Court of the United States for the'Southern District of New York, by the Providence Washington Insurance Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, and the Security. Insurance Company, of New Haven, Connecticut, against the steam canal-boat Sydney and the canal-boat William Worden.

The libel alleged that on May 17, 1883, the Sydney and the Worden, owned by the same, persons and engaged in the business of common carriers to and from the cities of New York and Buffalo, by way of the Erie Canal and the Hudson Rivér,…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Elgin v. MarshallSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  2. Hilton v. DickinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  3. Gibson v. ShufeldtSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  4. Bowman v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1885
  5. Mahomet v. QuackenbushSupreme Court of the United States · 1886

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Wager v. Providence InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Elliott v. Empire Natural Gas Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1925
  3. Wright v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1927
  4. Garcia v. FreeUtah Supreme Court · 1906
  5. Small v. New York Life Ins. Co.District Court, N.D. Alabama · 1937

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