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Benjamin Haney, Charles Ogden, and John Trenchard, Libellants and Appellants, v. the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, Owners of the Steamer Louisiana, and George W. Russell U.S. 287 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0177 and id is 1 raw text is: DECEMBER TERM, 1859. 2V' Haney et al. v. Baltimore Steam Packe Company. character to show any right or title in the land under the Mexican Government, or any equity in the claimant, under the act of Nongress requiring the adjudications to be made. The decree of the District Court is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded with directions to dismiss the petition. BENJAMIN HANEY, CHARLES OGDEN, AND JOHN TRENCHARD, LIBELLANTS AND APPELLANTS, V. THE BALTIMORE STEAM PACKET COMPANY, OWNERS OF THE STEAMER LOUISIANA, AND GEORGE W RUSSELL. In a collision which took place in the Chesapeake oay between a steamer and a sailing vessel, the steamer was in fault. It was the captain's watch, and his duty to be on deck, which he was not. rhe only man on deck, acting as pilbt, lookout) and officer of the deck, was not in the proper place for a lookout to be. A. former decision of this court referred to, indicating the proper place for a look- out. When the collision was impending, the order on the steamer was to starboard the helm instead of porting it, the schooner having previously kept on her course, as the rules of navigation required her to do. THis was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland, sitting in admiralty It was a case of collision occurring in the Chesapeake bay, between the steamer Louisiana and the schooner William K. Perrn, by which the schooner was sunk. The libel was in rem, filed by the appeljants against the steamer, and George W Russell, master thereof. The Balti- more Steam Packet Company intervened and answered as the owner of the steamer. The evidence in the case is so fully commented upon in the opinion of the court and in the dissenting opinion of Mr. Chief Justice TANEY, that any repetition of it is unnecessary The District Court decreed in favor of the libellants in the sum of seventeen 'hundred dollars, and of Charles Ogden, the master of the schooner, the additional sum of $173 and costs. On an appeal to the Circuit Court, a ddition al evidence was

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