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IN RE MORRISON

Nos. 8, 9. Original.

147 U.S. 14 (1893)

In re MORRISON, Petitioner. In re MORRISON, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1893.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel B. Clarke and Mr. Elihu Root, (with whom was Mr. Harrington Putnam on the brief,) for the petitioner in each case.

Mr. Robert D. Benedict, opposing the petition for a writ of mandamus, cited.

Mr. John Lowell, with whom was Mr. William D. Sohier, opposing the petition for a writ of prohibition.

MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 24th of July, 1892, between 8 and 9 o'clock A.M. a collision took place between the steam yacht Alva, at anchor on Nantucket Shoals, in Vineyard Sound, and owned by William K. Vanderbilt, of the city of New York, and the freight steamship H.F. Dimock, running regularly between Boston and the city of New York, and belonging to the Metropolitan Steamship Company...

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