THE BLACKHEATH

No. 34.

195 U.S. 361 (1904)

THE BLACKHEATH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 28, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General McReynolds for the United States, appellant.

Mr. Benjamin Carter, with whom Mr. R.H. Clarke was on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from the District Court on the question of jurisdiction, which is certified. The case is a libel in rem against a British vessel for the destruction of a beacon, Number 7, Mobile ship-channel lights, caused by the alleged negligent running into the beacon by the vessel. The beacon stood fifteen or twenty feet from the channel of Mobile river,...

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