Legal Opinion
Dunlap v. Steamboat Reliance
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Georgia
Decided July 1, 1880PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The Reliance was a passenger and freight steamboat, making regular trips by the middle route between Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia. On September 3, 1878, about 10 o’clock p. m., she left Jacksonville, bound for Savannah. On that trip the libellant was a pay passenger. Between 11 and 12 o’clock on the night of that day, as the Reliance was going up the St. Mary’s river, one of her boilers exploded. The result of the explosion was ta throw overboard her other boiler and to break in the lower forward saloon.
At the time of the explosion the libellant was sitting on the port side of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Stokes v. SaltonstallSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- The Steamboat New World v. KingSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Railroad Company v. PollardSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- McPadden v. . the New York Cen. R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
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