The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-04-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RUNNING DOWN OF A VESSEL.—ROBINSON D. ROO-so ts This action (in which Mr. William Robinson wasitoly plaintiff, and Mr. James Robson, sew., and Mr- Jame' c° to son, jun., were the defendants) was brought to recover eA to pensation for a vessel belonging to the plaintiff, allege,"the have been run down and destroyed, on the evening °I. the Gth of January, 1839, while at anchor in Yarmouth-r° the by a vessel belonging to the defendants, and throughoe negligence of the person having the management• the sum claimed was 4:750, the value of the vessel ; X2ej'ight value of the provisions on board ; and £35, the 111;310• that she would have received ;—making altogether ?srtic• It appeared that on the eve of the memorable and desoestive storm, whose ravages were so severely felt in Llano' pool, the George and Ilenry, a brig belonging to the Fargo tiff, bound from Stockton to Southampton with a ethen of coals, put into the Yarmouth-roads, there being ,flaig indications of an approaching storm. Later on the ev`i•soal the Wyndham, a vessel belonging to the defendants', ing' Shields to Rye, coal laden, finding the wind gradually 115 the returned into the roads, where she had been lying 11;1 will Ist until the morning of the Gth of January. The van c and then pretty stiff, and the weather hazy; mingled oQit); rain were falling. The Wyndham, in making for thatileasge the harbour beyond that part of the harbour where the wl Y, the and Henry was lying at Anchor, came in contact ~ ettio% last-named brig, catching her on the starboard, and e.°ooeher down to the water's edge, so that the crew had iwever' diately to get on board of the 'Wyndham. She. . she hail sustained considerable damage from the collisionta'uing was making water fast, and the crew took to the b„,,oat,', hourj, with them the crew of the George and Henry. 'I vc,'' ace°. after they were picked up by another vessel, and aule It was contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that `hate of aster arose through unskilfulness on the part of the: cornthe Wyndham, (the captain had, in a fit of insani'l;', )11ri and witted suicide in the course of the voyage,)ha", ALEXANDER, on the part of the defendants, that t‘irocii as been, as well as mutual loss, mutual negligence, illa-ajjefllt the vessel lying at anchor had no lights, and that, s°,lanalg and unexpectedly did they come into proximity, that,.,..ni,jeo all was done that could have been done to prevent ci,intitl,l it was unavoidable under the circumstances. The Tet. coin" witnesses said, that though the night was liazY, t" svitsee to some distance, (a quarter of a mile,) whilat_tel more,: nesses for the defence stated, that they could 110 c isectice than two or three ships' lengths before them. Evlatbst the also called, on the part of the defence, to show the lost Wyndham (the value of which, 'and not that er, ;it hay' vessel, could only be recovered) shad been overrated, it b‘or-, ing been sold, seven months previously, for .1:60u, aTo ing suffered depreciation of 5 per cent. per aunts% p, wOnld (the learned JUDGE observed, in his stinirningn.i.;)the have to be added, if the jury found for the plaloing timated sum of £B7 for freight, the valise of the .1,,' being the injury, and the amount of the accruing freight, that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.  id, ty, his the  tion Alec bad II of  act • de r in con,ated th,  1 had  t the y beglade lean'  rn by d the icing ,ana  of b" I LI, to 6beeo ees rpa, wool,  1, cer Yl°r ''  The jury found for the plaintiff; damages £689 lOa.