The Lafayette
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Separate suits in admiralty for collision by Augustus S. Meeker, by G. Malcolm Knox, by Harold Haas, by Charles Haas, as executor of Henry Haas, deceased, and by Augustus S. Meeker, as administrator of Mary Agnes Meeker, against the steamship Lafayette; the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, claimant. Decrees for libelants, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The five cases grew out of the same collision, were tried together, were argued in this court together, and will be now determined in one and the same opinion. These cases arose out of a collision in New York Harbor on the night of August 20, 1916. The collision was between the steamship Lafayette and the sloop Drifter, which was struck on the starboard side just forward of the cockpit and cut through, dividing her into two parts and causing her to sink immediately. The libelant Meeker was the owner of the sloop yacht Drifter. She was 34% feet in length, and her beam was…
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