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THE GREAT WESTERN

118 U.S. 520 (1886)

THE GREAT WESTERN. THOMMESSEN & Another v. WHITWILL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1886.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C. Van Santvoord, Mr. Harrington Putnam, Mr. Henry T. Wing and Mr. James K. Hill for appellants.

Mr. James Thomson (Mr. E.C. Henderson was with him on the brief) for appellee.

Mr. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case grew out of a collision which occurred on the 25th of March, 1876, on the high seas, 150 miles from Sandy Hook, between the Norwegian bark Daphne, belonging to the appellants and bound to Marseilles, and the British steamship Great Western, belonging to the respondent and others and bound to New York. The Daphne was...

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