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THE PROPELLER GENESEE CHIEF ET AL. v. FITZHUGH ET AL.

53 U.S. 443 (1851)

12 How. 443

THE PROPELLER GENESEE CHIEF, HER TACKLE, APPAREL, AND FURNITURE, WILLIAM L. PIERCE, MASTER, ALEXANDER KELSEY, WILLIAM H. CHENEY, WILLIAM HUNTER, LANSING B. SWAN, GEORGE R. CLARK, AND ELISHA B. STRONG, APPELLANTS, v. HENRY FITZHUGH, DEWITT C. LITTLEJOHN, AND JAMES PECK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Mathews, for the appellants, and by Mr. Grant and Mr. Seward, for the appellees.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a case of collision on Lake Ontario. The libellants were the owners of the schooner Cuba, and the respondents and present appellants the master and owners of the propeller Genesee Chief. The libellants state that on the 6th of May, 1847, as the Cuba was on her voyage from Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, to Oswego, in the State of New York, the Genesee Chief...

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