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SNOW ET AL. v. HILL ET AL.

61 U.S. 543 (____)

20 How. 543

THOMAS A. SNOW AND OLIVER PALMER, MANAGERS OF THE OCEAN TOW-BOAT COMPANY, CLAIMANTS AND OWNERS OF THE STEAM TOW-BOAT "STAR," AND OLIVER PALMER, APPELLANTS, v. CHARLES HILL ET AL., OWNERS OF THE SHIP "OCEAN QUEEN," AND GEORGE LAW, MARSHALL O. ROBERTS, AND BOWES R. McILVAINE, TRUSTEES OF THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, CLAIMANTS AND OWNERS OF THE STEAMSHIP "CRESCENT CITY."

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cases were finally narrowed down to the one which is at the caption of this report, and which was argued by Mr. Cushing on behalf of the Ocean Queen, Mr. Cutting on behalf of the Crescent City, and Mr. Benjamin on behalf of the Ocean Tow-boat Company, owners of the Star.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal in admiralty from the Circuit Court for the eastern district of Louisiana.

Hill and others, as claimants, in their libel, state that the Ocean Queen, being duly enrolled, registered, and equipped, left the port of New Orleans on a voyage to Liverpool, England, having a cargo of about 2,780 bales of cotton; that on the 5th of November, 1852, about half past nine o'clock, P.M., under the...

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