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Cases Selected From Those Heard and Determined in the Vice-Admiralty Court at Quebec
Cases Selected From Those Heard and Determined in the ViceAdmiralty Court at Quebec Author:William Cook Subtitle: Involving Questions of Maritime Law of Frequent Occurrence in the Trade and Navigation of the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, With an Appendix Containing the Imperial Statutes Specially Relating to Vice-Admiralty Courts, and the Rules of Practice Observed in Them, as Established by Order-In-Council General Books publication date: 2009... more » Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: John Lovell Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc Admiralty Maritime law Law / General Law / Maritime Law / Reference Law / Taxation Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Friday, 2Qth August, 1875. SS. QUEBEC. -- Bennett. Held: In the Vice-Admiralty Court, that, where a steamer having a clear course altered it, to go to the south, and pass between two vessels, and in attempting to do so collided with both, the fact of one of such vessels having improperly altered her helm, and contributed materially to the collisions, will not relieve the steamer from the liability of making good the injuries sustained by the sailing vessel which did not contribute to the accident; and By the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, That the finding of the Court below was, upon full consideration of the evidence, correct. The Judicial Committee is strongly disinclined to reverse the deliberate opinion of the Court below, when sustained by the advice of nautical assessors, and founded upon a view of the whole of the evidence. SS. Querec. This was a suit brought by the owners of the ship Princess Alexandra, of IS 70 tons, for damages sustained by her from the steamship Quebec having come into collision with her. The collision occurred between the Island of Orleans and Indian Cove, on the morning of the 30th of October, whe...« less