Thorp v. Hammond
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an action in personam in admiralty to recover for damages sustained by the libellant’s as owners of the schooner Three Brothers, which was sunk by a collision with the schooner B. H. Huntley off the coast of New Jersey on the 12th February, 1860. The libellant’s in their libel alleged as follows, viz: “ That about 8 o’clock,'A. M., of February, 12th, 1860, the Brothers had arrived within about eighteen' miles of the Highlands of Neversink, on her voyage to the port…
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This was an action in personam in admiralty to recover for damages sustained by the libellant’s as owners of the schooner Three Brothers, which was sunk by a collision with the schooner B. H. Huntley off the coast of New Jersey on the 12th February, 1860. The libellant’s in their libel alleged as follows, viz: “ That about 8 o’clock,'A. M., of February, 12th, 1860, the Brothers had arrived within about eighteen' miles of the Highlands of Neversink, on her voyage to the port of New York, and was running closehauled on a course off a little east of north, but a short distance from the shore.…
1Opinion of the Court
Shipman, D. J.
The libellants, owners of the schooner, Brothers, have brough this suit in upersonam against the respondents Samuel S. Hammond, Edmund Hammond, Jacob Smith, Charles Grillett, Bewster Terry, Charles Pim, Alfred Pirn and Hiram Sell, owners of the schooner ‘B. H. Huntley,’ to recover damages suffered by the former in a collision with the latter, off the Jersey shore, in February, 1860. The libel alleges unskillfulness and neglect in the management of the Huntley as the cause of the collision. Samuel S. Hammond the captain of the Huntley, was on board and had charge of her at the…
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