THE MORGAN


115 U.S. 69 (1885)

THE CHARLES MORGAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 4, 1885.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.D. Lincoln [Mr. R.H. Marr also filed a brief] for appellants.

Mr. Richard H. Browne [Mr. Charles B. Singleton was with him] for appellees.


Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in admiralty, brought by the owners of the steamboat "Cotton Valley," to recover for the loss of their boat, and certain articles of personal property belonging to Martin H. Kouns alone, in a collision on the Mississippi River with the steamboat "Charles Morgan." In the original libel filed in the District Court, claim was made only for the value of...

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