Appellant: Richard Cory, John Fenwick, Joseph Bennett, James Lawrie, John Orwell Phillips, Samuel Williams, John Hutchinson, Frank Howell, John Fletcher, Francis Wyatt Truscott, Frederick John Evans, Howard Charles Ward, John Joicey and Edward Joicey, owners of the screw steamship Magna Carta. Respondent: George Duncan, gent, Peter Stuart, grocer, and Thomas Couper, shipowner, all of Dundee, owners of the screw steamship Scotia, and William Speedy, her master, and her crew. Subject: Collision between said vessels on 3 Aug 1870. Lower Court: High Court of Admiralty of England.