Bigelow v. Nickerson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This was a libel in personam, exhibited in the court below by the appellee against the owner of the steamer Robert Holland, claiming damages for the death of Erik Anderson, in a collision between the schooner William Aid-rich and -the barge Parana, which barge, with the barge Stevenson, was af the time in tow of the steamer Robert Holland.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This was a libel in personam, exhibited in the court below by the appellee against the owner of the steamer Robert Holland, claiming damages for the death of Erik Anderson, in a collision between the schooner William Aid-rich and -the barge Parana, which barge, with the barge Stevenson, was af the time in tow of the steamer Robert Holland. The collision is asserted to have been causéd by the fault of the Robert Holland. The collision occurred at about 5 a. m. of the morning of November 1, 1891, under…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
It is determined that, at the common law, no civil action would lie for an injury resulting in death (Insurance Co. v. Brame, 95 U. S. 754), and that, in the absence of an act of congress, or a statute of a state, giving a right of action therefor, no suit will lie in the admiralty for personal injury causing death through negligence on the high seas, or on waters navigable from the sea (The Harrisburg, 119 U. S. 199, 7 Sup. Ct. 140; The Alaska, 190 U. S. 201, 9 Sup. Ct. 461). It is also settled that, if a state statute gives a right of action touching a subject of maritime nature, the *116admiral…
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