Legal Opinion
The Perkiomen
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 3, 1886PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Gross-libels for a Collision between the steam-ship Perkiomen and the schooner Abbie C. Stubbs.
1Opinion of the CourtNelson, J.
There is very little disagreement between the parties as to the material and controlling facts in this ease. They are, briefly, these; The collision happened about midnight between the fifteenth and sixteenth of July, 1885, near the whistling-buoy, five miles off Monomoy beach. The Perkiomen, a large steam-collier belonging to the Heading Railroad, was on a voyage from Port Richmond to Boston, with a full cargo of 1232 tons of coal. She had passed through Pollock Rip slue, and had just got by the whistling-buoy on her starboard side, and was heading N. by E., with a speed of 7 knots an hour.…
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