The Clara
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of New York. [In admiralty. Libel by Jotham Shepherd and others, owners of the schooner Jul.a New-ell, against the schooner Clara, for a loss sustained by collision. There was a decree for libellants in the district court (case unreported), and Lemuel H. H p'.n; and ethers, claimants of the Clara, appeal.]
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Justice.
A collision occurred about five o’clock, a. m., of the 25th of February, 1874, inside the Delaware breakwater, between the schooners Clara and Julia Newell, whereby the latter was sunk. The Newell, a small schooner of 78 tons burden, on the afternoon of the 23d of February, anchored within the breakwater for shelter from an approaching. storm, and the Clara, being on a voyage from New York to Baltimore, foreseeing the approaching storm, bore away for and also put into the breakwater for safety, where she arrived about five o’clock, a. m., of the 25th of February, and,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The "Clara."Supreme Court of the United States · 1880
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