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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR APPEALS ROR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This was a libel in admiralty filed by the Erie & "Western' Transportation Company, owner of the propeller Conemaugh, and a cross-libel by the Union Steamboat Company, owner of the propeller New York, against the propeller Conemaugh, to recover damages for a collision between these vessels which occurred between seven and eight o’clock in the evening of October 21, 1891, on the Canadian side of the Detroit…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR APPEALS ROR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This was a libel in admiralty filed by the Erie & "Western' Transportation Company, owner of the propeller Conemaugh, and a cross-libel by the Union Steamboat Company, owner of the propeller New York, against the propeller Conemaugh, to recover damages for a collision between these vessels which occurred between seven and eight o’clock in the evening of October 21, 1891, on the Canadian side of the Detroit River, a short distance below the village of Sandwich in the Province of Ontario, and between what is known as Petite Cóte,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This collision took place in October, 1891. The navigation of the two steamers was therefore governed by the Congressional Bules and Begulations Act of April 29, 1864, c. 69, 13 Stat. 58, reproduced in Bevised Statutes, section 4233, and, so far at least as the manoeuvres of the respective vessels took place in American waters, by the Supervising Inspectors’ rules in force in 1891.
The Bevised International Begulations of 1885, act of March 3, 1885, c. 354, 23 Stat. 438, apply only to navigation “upon the high seas and in all coast waters of the United States; ” and in section two, repealing…
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