Compagnie Generale Transatlantique v. O'Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. Libel in personam by James O'Sullivan and others against La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, owner of the steamship La Normandie, for the loss of libelants’ pilot boat, Charlotte Webb, by collision, with the steamship; also, libel in rem by the same libelants and one Green against the steamship for the same collision.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In Admiralty. Libel in personam by James O'Sullivan and others against La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, owner of the steamship La Normandie, for the loss of libelants’ pilot boat, Charlotte Webb, by collision, with the steamship; also, libel in rem by the same libelants and one Green against the steamship for the same collision. The suits were tried together in the district court, and a decree for libelants was rendered in the suit in personam, while in the suit in rem a decree for libelant Green…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The first of these causes is an action brought by the owners of the pilot boat Charlotte Webb, and by her crew, against the owner of the steamship La Normandie, in person-am, for loss of said pilot boat, and of their personal effects thereon, which were sunk in a collision between the Charlotte "Webb and the said steamship about eight miles east of Sandy Hook light-ship. The district court entered a decree for the total sum, including costs, of $15,246.32, against the respondent.
La Normandie is one of a regular line of steamers plying between New York and Havre, and is…
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