Bentley v. Coyne
Supreme Court of the United States
These were appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan, in a libel and cross-libel for collisions of vessels on Lake Michigan; the questions involved being of fact chiefly, and the cases being-submitted.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Olieeord
Subject-matter of the controversy in this case was a collision between tlie schooner White Cloud and the bark Newsboy, which occurred on the twelfth day of November, 1862, off Twin River Point, or a little below, on the west shore of Lake Michigan. Owner of the "White Cloud filed his libel against the bark Newsboy on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1863, and the owners of the bark filed their cross-libel against the schooner on the twenty-ninth day of September in the same year. Both cases were heard together in the District Court, and the decision was that the bark was in fault. Damages were…
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