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CROCKETT ET AL. v. NEWTON, CLAIMANT, &C.

59 U.S. 581 (1855)

18 How. 581

JONATHAN CROCKETT, ARCHIBALD C. SPALDING, JOHN GREGORY, CHRISTOPHER DYER, AND NATHANIEL DYER, LIBELLANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. THE STEAMBOAT ISAAC NEWTON, HER TACKLE, &C., ISAAC NEWTON, CLAIMANT. AUGUSTUS LORD, LIBELLANT AND APPELLANT, v. THE STEAMBOAT ISAAC NEWTON, HER TACKLE, &C., DANIEL DREW, CLAIMANT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued in this court by Mr. Benedict, for the appellants, and by Mr. Cowles, for the appellees.

Mr. Justice CURTIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, in a cause of collision, prosecuted by the owners of the schooner Hero, against the steamer Isaac Newton.

On the sixteenth of July, 1850, the schooner Hero, of the burden of 100 tons, which had been lying at pier No. 15 on the North River, in the city of New York, hauled out of the dock, soon...

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